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How many times have we all walked into Evan Thomas creek down Kananaskis?
There, just standing in middle of track ahead was a COUGAR!!!!!!!
...and a little closer, a cougar...
He/She just stood there watching, then calmly walked across the track and into the trees. Must have had lunch that day.
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8 Responses to “A Close Encounter of the Unexpected Kind”
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Wow
Fantastic.
After all those years of watching for foot prints and thinking, oh yeah, we’ll never be in danger of actually seeing one. He/she didn’t fancy a Terry flavoured snack that day then.
Nice cat!
But not at all unexpected from a cat-charmer. I’m sure if he had not had lunch yet he would’ve eaten out of the palm of your hand. 
OMG, that’s amazing. Do you know how many times I wondered who’d be lunch when I saw prints? I wonder what our cat crazy friend will think?
Have a great time Terry, say hi to Vicki.
Hey Terry,
Are you sure… it looks like a bobcat or lynx to me! Pointy ears. Doesn’t really look that big compared to the tracks. Did you see it’s tail?
A lynx tail is very short – 4 inches (?), bobcat is like a house cat, cougar is as long as the body and a foot of it would drag on the ground when walking.
Fantastic Terry, and you kept your wits and got a piccy
good work!!!
and whatever it is…………….. it’s not a dog!! Wait ’til Anna sees it!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh; here kitty, kitty as I used to say whenever I saw prints
Are we sure it’s not a penguin?
Er… in disguise?!
Well, the picture has stimulated great interest in town. Measuring sticks are coming out and extrapolations made. Ear shapes being matched to profiles. Particularly so because the Wardens believe there is a cougar operating relatively close to the parking lot in Evan Thomas. Daft thing is that, although we examined the tracks (a good time)afterwards, we clean forgot to photograph them
But last year,they were prolific around there. particularly around Moonlight Falls, where one actually sat by our sacks at the bottom (before the slope)presumably watching us abseiling
But it certainly wasn’t a Penguin