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Subject: Cougar attack in Minnesota? From: Stu posted Wed, Oct 28 2009, 4:23pm  'DNR says it can neither confirm nor deny cougar attacked horses.' Bit much for a bobcat, surely. Not evidence of either a breeding population or dispersed young males either way, but further supplemental evidence, nonetheless, of the possibility of their return to east of the Mississippi. Subject: Re: Cougar attack in Minnesota? From: badger man posted Wed, Oct 28 2009, 7:44pm  I don't know. It seems to me that a cougar could have killed or mortally injured one of the horses. Subject: Re: Cougar attack in Minnesota? From: kittenz posted Thu, Oct 29 2009, 9:49am  That looks more like rain rot on that poor horse than an animal attack. Subject: Re: Cougar attack in Minnesota? From: Bearman58 posted Fri, Oct 30 2009, 1:26am  Thanks kittenz-my thoughts exactly, and I think damage-even from an inexperienced cougar-would have been far more severe. They have inch long, razor-sharp claws, and they almost always attack the neck and throat. Subject: Re: Cougar attack in Minnesota? From: TonyCannon posted Sat, Oct 31 2009, 11:38pm  Either a cougar or Obama. Most things wrong with the USA usually get blamed on one or the other. This is why rural people get a bad reputation for ignorance. Only on the rarest of occasions do cougars attack something other than deer, elk, rabbits, etc. to eat; their prey and how they hunt it is a learned behaviour. Like people, horses aren't really on the cougar diet because they're never taught that's what is okay to eat. Wolves, also, do not attack horses on even a rare basis, though the rancher is sure that wolves attack horse legs. Bobcats are tiny and wouldn't know what to do with a horse, other than avoid it. Even the mention of a bobcat attacking multiple horses is ridiculous and waters down any attempt at pinning this on a cougar. Subject: Re: Cougar attack in Minnesota? From: Grant posted Mon, Nov 2 2009, 2:02pm  Just the other day out here a woman was killed by coyotes.

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