What's with all the cats this spring?

[huntinnewbie]

I posted 4 weeks ago about seeing my first cougar in the wild. Crossed the road between Coalmont and Princeton. Well back at the cabin this past weekend and neighbors had to go into Princeton on Sunday morning. They see 3 cougars cross the road. Probably Mom and two juveniles.
Then we get home and Brother-in-Law phones to say he was fishing around Squamish on Sunday and he sees his first cougar cross the road in front of him.

[squamishhunter]

Saw a couple around gold river as well but thats not really a surprise.

[r106]

less cat hunters nowadays?

[SPEYMAN]

Rural deer feed rural cats.

[adriaticum]

It's the global warming...

[Singleshotneeded]

Rural deer feed rural cats.

Seems there's more deer moving in closer to people than there used to be, and predators follow the prey animals.

[BigfishCanada]

Its actually due to the large amount of snow on the mountains. Deer move down, so do the cougars. Many of these trophies we are seeing on hear are a result of them coming down from the remote areas that they normally would reside in. Plus of course there are a lot of them!

[Mr. Dean]

Its actually due to the large amount of snow on the mountains. Deer move down, so do the cougars. Many of these trophies we are seeing on hear are a result of them coming down from the remote areas that they normally would reside in. Plus of course there are a lot of them!

Ditto.

I went out and played for 2 weeks hunting preds, Jan - Feb.
Once above 4000', the mountains were viod of game, except rabbit and lynx.

Moose were even pushed out of their normal wintering haunts - Everything moved to low ground.

[hunter1947]

I have never in my hunting years saw as much cougar kills and tracks in all my years hunting every zone areas I go to I see this and when I was on a 4 day shed hunt in a region far away from cranbrook I had two different cats scream at me ..

[Elkaholic]

I would like to know how you all decide there is "lots" of cats. What method are you using? Because in reality we have no f'in clue how many cats we have.