Mountain lions

Usage examples of cougars.

Most cougars that are killed by still-hunters are shot by accident while the man is after other game.

Although not common, cougars are found near my ranch, where the ground is peculiarly favorable for the solitary rifleman.

General Wade Hampton, who with horse and hound has been the mightiest hunter America has ever seen, informs me that he has killed with his pack some sixteen cougars, during the fifty years he has hunted in South Carolina and Mississippi.

All the cougars he killed were either treed or brought to bay in a canebrake by the hounds.

Like all cats, cougars are comparatively easy to trap, much more so than beasts of the dog kind, such as the fox and wolf.

I should have no more hesitation in sleeping out in a wood where there were cougars, or walking through it after nightfall, than I should have if the cougars were tomcats.

I knew two men in Missoula who were once attacked by cougars in a very curious manner.

Then Mildred fired four fast shots directly in front of the cougars, the lead glancing off the cobblestones, the noise and sparks making the pair retreat slightly.

All I could think about was how at last year's talent show, Amber and her longtime boyfriend—Mark Leskowski, the Ernie Pyle High Cougars quarterback—had done this very lame rendition of Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better, and how serious Amber had been about it, and how certain she'd been that she and Mark were going to win.

I could really care less if the Cougars win State, or even if they win, period.

The roars of the redcrested cougars traveled with him that night, and at one point he thought he saw one of the great animals eyeing him casually from a branch high above.

West Fork had just discovered that the aloof, silent cowhand called Nevada was every bit as skilled at fighting as he was at tracking cougars – and he was known as the best cat-tracker in five states.

The line had been left by generations of deer, cougars, and occasional Indians.

In modern times, deer and cougars still used the game trail, as did Rocking M cowhands who were working both Wildfire Canyon and the leased grazing lands beyond.

Eden was going to be living in the remote area around Wildfire Canyon, tracking the cougars that had returned to the Rocking M.