carl spacklers hat said:
Plenty of mountain lions down here. There was a game cam pic taken at Laguna Atascosa NWR a few years ago with 7 or 8 in the field of view around a feeder. Crazy.
Carl:
Years ago, in a galaxy far, far away I lived in Laguna Vista for several years and got to know folks that worked at the LAWR and up north of Rio Hondo I believe I saw a Mountain Lion twice when we used to hunt up there.
What strikes me as odd is that if that cat was killed near Olmito it was in a highly populated area about 20-30 miles from the real wild areas of the LAWR, and between those areas are a ton of flat open farm land and lots of major roads. I was always told that the big cats trended northward in the refuge, not so much to the south and west due to the population and open expanses.
In the last two years I have heard of two separate instances where knowledgeable landowners in the Western RGV have seen Jagarundi. Of course they could be off, but these are folks that are pretty reputable but would never officially report this due to the implications.