I thought it would be interesting to list the Texas counties you have seen Mountain lions in to get an unscientific idea of their range. LOL - no black cats please.

Where have you seen them and how many have you seen?

I will go first.......

Upton county - 2 sightings.


Tbar

china spring high school gym, 1 dead, stuffed and kool lookin

lol^^

i saw one in gonzales county. and thats it.... actually, ive seen two cougars in gonzales county, as well as a tiger and a lion......but seriously, one wild cougar lol.

Eastland Co.......this ought to be get good.

3 sighting's 1 in Glasscock County, 1 in Borden County and 1 in Howard county. We currently have 3 traps out for cats on the big ranch all baited with live goats.

The guy I know that owns 45K acres in Pecos Cnty on the border of Terrell County says he lost count of how many he has seen and/or killed out there since he was a boy.
We keep our eyes peeled big time out there. I wanna shoot one bad. We had a pile of skinned foxes about 50 yards from our camp last time we were down there disappear over night. 4 or 5 carcasses just gone. Not sure if it was a cat but don't know what else it could have been.

thats cruel, no different than using a kitten.... u disgust me.....

Texas Mountain Lion Sightings By County As Reported On THF & TBH.




Tbar

lol^

I've seen two in Brewster County, one live and one dead on my friend's tailgate shortly after he shot it.

Saw one on the road in Val Verde County 2 years ago...think we have one on our ranch now, seen tracks but we havent seen it yet.

I saw one at Raybob 2 years ago.

1 in nothwest hill co crossed road in front of me
1 in sansaba co , guy on the next place over killed it a month later
there was one killed in east Bosque co back in 73? saw the pics of it dead

had a reliable report of one in Goliad co this year also

Texas Mountain Lion Sightings By County As Reported On THF & TBH.




Tbar

1 in Montgomery county, about 20 years ago, ran across the road in front of me.

That cat better bring a pair of side cutters with him because that's the only way he's going to get close to them goat's.

add armstrong county to the list.

Seen one driving through Waller County off in the distance walkin through a field. It was very big. You could clearly see it from a faraway distance and I am positive it was one because of its long tail. People have said to have seen em on my lease in kinney county.

add Kaufman Co. to the list, Nacogdoches co. is already on there.

two cats, two different parts of the state.

Texas Mountain Lion Sightings By County As Reported On THF & TBH.




Tbar

I know of 2 reported in Garza County last year, also Lynn County and very sketchy reports on some in Eastern Lubbock County.

I have seen 3 different ones in different parts of Burleson County, 1 in San Saba County, and 1 along the brazos river on the Burleson/Brazos county line

Texas Mountain Lion Sightings By County As Reported On THF & TBH.




Tbar

is there any way you can blow that pic up any?

1 sighting 3 weeks ago in Presidio county just outside Redford at 30 yards stalking my guide as he was coming down the mountain.

Another sighting in Hudspeth county northwest of Sierra Blanca last winter.

And one more sighting in Terlingua , Brewster county, last year and tracks found in far east El Paso county but no confirmed sighting yet on that one.

one was killed this week in Bastrop county, probably the same one that ran across the road in front of my wife on Watts lane.

T bar you can just fill ion the whole state, there are way more of them the people want or need to know about.

cool thread tho

Saw one in Stonewall County about two weeks ago. Davidson Peak/Kiowa Peak area.

My wife and I saw one cross the road in Crossroads, TX, Denton Co.

Seen one lying dead on hiway 34 between greenville and terrel earlier this year. thought it was a deer untill we seen its tail...

Have seen Lions in Edwards county, Kimble County, Dallas County, Tarrant County, Denton County, Throckmorton County, Baylor County, Young County & Archer County If you spend enuff time in the outdoors either sitting in a deer blind or spot & stalk hunting you will see them. There has not been a documented case of a Lion attacking a human here in Texas in the last 50 year probably more!

i spend more time in the woods (4 or 5 days a week hunting)than anyone I know never seen one. lots of heavy drinkers on here??

the one i saw, i wasnt hunting at all. i was driving home from the girlfriends around 9 30. then the next day i get a call from my neighbor tellin me to be careful if i go outin the pasture to hunt or anything, cuz him and the other neighbor had both seen it runnin around lol. I hadnt told anyone that i saw it before then. they are around, just not easy to see.

Last January a friend and I saw a small mountain lion on Lake Belton near Morgan's Point. We were in a boat fishing in the back of a creek. At first thought it was a large bobcat until we noticed the long distinctive tail.

No, it's no the same at all.

It takes a whole basket of kittens.

I was riding my mtn bike right this weekend, wondering if there were any mtn lions in that area

Talked to the sheriff here in Erath county the other day and he said a juvenile mountain lion was killed by a car on a county road in the North part of the county towards Huckabay last week.

Fort Bend County along the river out of Orchard and Hudspeth Co. last Mule deer season.

Fisher County only once, in the pasture right by the HOUSE!

I still never seen one in texas....

Put archer co on the map we had on on the trail camera

Put Falls co on here .

If you're familiar with the area, saw it really close to where CR 231 and CR 219 meet. Neighbors have seen it too back towards CR 235 right off that high fence place.

A guy on our lease spotted a cat 300 yrds from our camp in Pecos Co.

This was before we had pluming in the camp house.

Running joke was that if you had the cold nose of a cat bump you in the butt while dropping a duece, dont look back and run like he77!!!

I have spotted one in hunt county. the sabine river bottoms where a pipeline runs through.

Also seen one in rains county on our place varmint hunting,

We didn't take the shot because we didn't know what it was till it spooked and hauled @$$. Next day rancher on property next to us said he seen it checking cows, found afterbirth but no calf.

Dad saw 3 in Coreyell County/ Gatesville. Friend saw one in COLLIN COUNTY! 3 days ago. We were thinking the coyotes were getting out of hand by the number of dead or injured calves, but I bet this cat has something to do with it. The 5' x 10' x 4' tall trap is in the shop right now, hopefully it'll be finished and set by Saturday.

The sighting in Collin County was just 3 miles NW of the Collin County jail in Mckinney.

Yeah as long as I can get you some shoats to put in there for the big lil putty cat.

Seen two. One in Hunt county and one in Delta.

Well they are free as opposed to a dang goat.

Real and Archer, not counting the black ones here in Fannin/Hunt

It is just a goat boys... cabrito?

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Have seen tracks all over Grapevine corp. east of 377 south of little denton creek. some prints are in the area of 4 inches across and a fellow hunter the other day said he thought it was a HUGE bobcat over a gut pile till it walked away and he saw the 4ft long tail. Makes you wanna keep your eyes on the trees.

2 sightings in chambers county 1 in jasper county and 1 in blanco county. i saw the one in blanco, my uncle saw the one in jasper and one in chambers, and a friend of mines mom took a pic of one in her back yard in chambers county(hankamer)

You can add Llano and Lampasas counties to the list.

I guy that use to be on our deer lease had a horse killed by one a couple years ago in Lamar county.

That's scary, your friend's mom seeing one in the backyard. Keep the 30-30 handy.

Last year, My boss was asleep in bed, when the doorbell rang. He lives in Lake Dallas! We are talking just nortwest of Lewisville. Well, there was a sheriff standing on the porch, and told my boss to stay in the house. He just seen about a 180lb cat in his front yard and jump the backyard fence. The next day the game warden came out, and the tracks were in the back yard. So, I guess the old addage that "where there's deer, there is mountain lions" might still ring true. The warden said there were several living in the area.

Duval County, just outside of Freer. We've had 3 sightings over the course of the last 8 years. One shot at and missed by a guest. All 3 were supposedly fairly small, maybe 70-80lbs.

I saw 5 in Upton Co from the late 70's to around 1990, one was on the air strip on the west side of Rankin just a couple hundred yards from our house. Saw 2 in northen Crocket Co and 1 in west Reagan Co. Actually 6 in Upton if you count the dead one the Gov. traper got.

I grew up in Odessa, and when I was little, my dad and older brothers were coming home from deer hunting and found a mountain lion that had JUST got hit and killed on I-10. IT was just west of Roosevelt I think. Might have been closer to Sheffield. No scars at all from it. They had it mounted, but back in 1995, it was stolen out of our storage room. It wasnt but about a 80lb cat, but a neat mount none the less.

Been one spotted in Montague Co. about 5 miles west of Montague.

i've seen tracks in far far west bandera county....we've had two sighting this year at our neighbors ranch in zavala county

We have seen 2 in Crockett county and 1 Bigfoot

I've personally see 3 different cats on my place in cottle county near the Pease River. 1 mother and an older cub....one other lone cat walking the rivers ridge.

I did a lengthy search on this, and the only thing I could find said there has never been a documented case...

Several sightings in Glasscock. One in Crockett county, seen tracks in Sterling.

Your search should have shown three which have occured since 1980 all in southwest texas. No fatalites. I dont know how to post the link but my search took only a second and it was TPW info.

I have posted about this before and its been along time ago. But I have seen three in parker county. I had someone with me in all three sightings. One in the early 80s running trot line on brazos with a Jon boat electic motor at 1am no more then 30yrds away. Small cat 70 80# be my guess. The other in 1997 or 98 100yds away crossing a rd near a place I managed. And the other around the same time frame about 5 miles where that cat crossed the rd near Advance rd. That one came to rattling horns. I wasnt fast enough to get a shot. It was a big cat. I know alot of people that dont think its possible. I lived in theses areas and spent everyday in the field. And these are isolated incidents.If someone really wanted to research it the Weatherford demacrat paper had a write up about a cat hunter that came up from alpine and confirmed a kill in parker around the time frame I saw those two cats in the late 90s.

1987 Big Bend national park 14 yr old boy killed.I read a little further from wear I found that other info. Like I said do a google you can find it.

Really? Can you post a link? This stuff fascinates me...guess my stuff was dated.

Never mind, just found it.

Hunted a lease about 40 miles west of Corpus Christi, think it was still in Nueces county. It had a pair on there, guy on the place next to us killed one of them. This was 20 years ago. Meanwhile fast forward to this summer in Erath county just outside of Lingelville I walked up on a adult mountain lion. He went one way I went the other. Guys on the ranch next to me have seen it a couple of times also.

Well, someone else has seen another mountain lion on my place in Kinney County. (I posted earlier)

Hunted around Sierra Alto just east of El Paso past Hueco Tanks over Mule Deer season.
Fellow lease hunters saw a mountain lion up on one of the mountains.
Took several shots at him and hiked up to look for him.
Did not find anything though.
Several cats have been trapped on the ranch in the past 10 years and they have a full mounted one in the ranch bunk house.

Midland County, seen multiple times this year sitting in the larger mesquite trees next to the tank swatting doves that land in the tree.

Saw one this past Friday in LiveOak County on the road by our house. It has been seem many times in the same area by many people. Since the sighting we have not seen a deer at the feeders and im carrying a pistol to the stand with me.

I saw one while I was quail hunting on the Kaufman/ Van Zandt county line.

I believe that. Probably more lions than quail in that area. lol.

I saw one on the Baird Lake rd in Callahan co. early 90's, it was in the middle of the road. Had to stop for it as it just walked to the fence and hopped it like a deer. It never ran just looked back at me and walked away!
A few years later I was driving behind a guy a was hunting with on the way to the ranch, he swerved off the road to miss one he said, but I did not see it for myself. But it was right at the south city limit sign of Lawn Tx in Taylor co.

add McLennan county to the list

I saw one at my lease in northwest Llano county around Pontatoc about 3 weeks ago. hunters next door saw it 2 days ago.

We had them on the lease between fredericksburg and Junction.We had them Just North of Coleman in 2001.We had them in Sanderson,and we had them in Marathon.The one Cat just North of Coleman was a fact -yet we had no way to prove it.At that time we had a lease with JB Smith Ranch.We told him and he just lokked at us kinda funny..LOL we told the local game warden and he pretty much did the same.About 4 years later a guy killed one while hunting..Guess we were right after all.I think there are alot more around than any of us really know.

Callahan County - 2002. Ranchers wife saw it killing calves - i thought - yeah right. Then I saw it eating a gut pile from a buck we had shot earlier in the day.

I've never actually laid eyes on one, but I've seen tracks that were an easy 3-4" across in Fisher Co.
My BIL discounted these tracks as the neighbors' dogs, but we never see them on our property.

there is an almost surefire way to tell....

a dogs outside toes will be even with each other...

the mountain lion will be undoubtedly uneven.. like one further
forward than the other

The quail have been gone for yrs

I saw one last night. I thought I was crazy but something has been eating my chickens...one per night before I go shut them up at night and I decided to sit out there with a .22 and shoot what I assumed was a coyote and it ended up being what looked like a cougar to me. I came online to look around and see if anyone else had seen one in or near Waller recently because I was not aware they were this far east. Maybe I'm not crazy. I saw a long tail and it was a buff color like my dog. It walked right into the light of the flashlight I had pointed out into the yard not 30 feet from me. Maybe I'm crazy but I know what I saw.

Several in Haskell, Throckmorton,Shackelford,Jones counties years ago, and recently in Reagan,Crockett,Terrell, and
Pecos county.

I know a person that owns 1250 acres that is just off 377 south of the Colo. river on the San Saba / McCullogh conty line. One night a govt. trapper called and asked permission to continue tracking a big cat on to their property. About a year later my brother seen one in the ranch road while on a 4 wheeler. I shot a doe late one evening and trailed it across a creek for about 100 yards. It got to dark and I had no fashlight. Since it was cold I figured I would go back in the morning. I found it really quickly and it was in a muddy spot covered with leaves and twigs and there tracks bigger than my palm. This was the second wounded deer I had found covered on this ranch. They are out there.

A friend of mine saw one with a cub this summer in Wheeler County. I've heard of a few other sightings in Wheeler county but this guy I really believe.

1 in Blanco County near J.C.
2 in Edwards County near Vance.

we see em quite regularly in edwards and real county as well as mexican brown bears that are seen at least once a yr....everybody was kinda always iffy abouthe whole bear thing until one came out in the rocksprings paper caught on the good ole game cam

my greatuncle was a govt trapper outta rocksprings and killed one when i was about 10....this thing was huge i think 7 foot from head to tail....they had it mounted lifesize mount...susposedly it was so big that our taxidermist in camp wood (Pickaloo) had to get a baby elk mannican and cut it down....and if noone believes me i have proof of it and im surer some of you may have seen it cause its in the bank in Rocksprings Tx

one sighting east of ransom canyon,lubbock co. in yellowhouse canyon

My wife and I saw one last season on our lease south of Post off the Gail Hwy.

Grayson. Once.

clay

coryell

had one seen on our lease on the edge of blanco/gilespie county about 2 weeks ago, I'm about to go to cabelas and spend some christmas money on a nice predator caller and throw some cow blood out there once the season is over to see what i can see. probably just yotes and foxes but worth a try!

Saw one last year in Tyler County!!!

Add Runnels, and Palo pinto. Have seen tracks in Eastland but no one on the lease ever saw the cat

Up late last night, apparently too late. Not Palo Pinto, our lease was in Stephens county on PK. Had pics of 3 different cats on game cams.

We have seen one twice here. Once was chasing some piglets across the road, the other time it walked right through camp slowly and not scared at all. There were 10 of us that saw this one.

My grandpa lives near our land and has seen one a couple of other times. Most recently crossing a gravel road real slowly.

I suspect they hang out near us do to the large amount of hog kills we leave in one area. Never once has a hog lasted 3 days once I put it out. And several dissapear completely, no bones, fur etc.

I tried to put up a trail cam, but the buzzards during the day killed my battery. Hog was completely gone when I got the cam, but batteries where killed the very first day with buzzards.

For those tracking, this is Hopkins County.

I didn't think I would be adding a sighting to the list. A friend and his daughter were out hunting yesterday afternoon on my families property in Northwest Red River County and saw one. When I talked to him they said they got a good look at it.

Young County

Karnes County

We see them in Jack County ever so often. Our neighbor got one on Game Cam this year. I saw one up close last year, about ten feet actually. He was as suprised to see me as I was to see him. They run incredibly fast.

Starr Co 4 years ago while sitting on the deer stand. It crossed the sendero fast.

I haven't been fortunate enough to lay eyes on one yet but a landowner I've hunted with the last 9 years has seen a few over the years in Donley Co. just off the river by his place and the lease I have this year in Motley Co. had a cat runnin' around this summer.

Hill Co. twice

Twice in Blanco County up close and personal....too close.
One in Taylor County near Merkel.
2 in Edwards county

Last year in Coryell County. Crossing a Farm to Market road.

Add Orange,hardin,polk,tyler,jefferson and jasper to you list. I am a animal control trapper and i have trapped sighted or have found tracks, kills. Also in one case same cat in more than one county.

Taylor county. Game cam pic from the place next door. Will have the pic asap.

Surely with all these sighting there must exist a picture. I've heard some got them on game cameras. WHERE ARE THE PICS!!!!!!

3 Sightings over 9 years - King County
I have a pig tied to a tree now with steel cable. Getting pics back this weekend. Will post any pics if we get one in a pic.

guys on my lease in llano county saw one about 5 yeaars ago sitting on a rock right off the ranch road. this was before i was on the place