When I was a youngun....there were more bobcats and whatnot than you can shake a stick at. We trapped and killed 50-1100 (said fifty eleven hundred meanin a helluva lot...yeah that's a werd so dont pick on me lol
) bobcats over the years.
As fer as them cougars...there are many of em in the mountains here. As fer as black ones....in 1979..me and my entire family was witness to one that got in the chicken house one night. Never seen nuthin like that ever again. Course...we did have a game farm operated by the state in them days...so that could be the explanation...but still...he aint act like no game farm cat.
Speakin of the game farm...they had a hard time keepin them animals on the place....trex might remember that. I remember as a lilone my Pop draggin me by the shirt jumpin in the truck to head up to the store to see the biggest buck anybody ever seen round these parts...his rack was every bit of 3 ft wide and just as tall....and Cumberland aint never had such a traffic jam as that day. People had been catchin glimpses of that rascal...but nobody had downed him till then. It was a dern mule deer that had done got out of the game farm somehow...and especially back then..most folks round here aint even heard of a mule deer..lmao...it was great...that boy thought he had the werld record fer sure...ahhhh them was the good ole days....