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<blockquote data-quote="rhart" data-source="post: 2826350" data-attributes="member: 16596"><p>I saw one back in1996 early in the morning right after sunrise. Ran across the turnpike from Tulsa to Muskogee - just outside of Tulsa. I saw something running flat out toward the road from my right. It was about 150-yards from the road when I first noticed it. Thought it was a deer at first so I slowed down so as not to hit it. That thing didn't even slow down when it hit the fence just before crossing the road. It was tawny colored and had a tail that was about as long as its body from shoulders to butt. It shot across all four lanes of the turnpike and jumped the fence on the other side at break neck speed. Crossed about 30-yards in front of my truck. When I told the guys down in Muskogee at work about it they said it was probably somebody's escaped pet.</p><p></p><p> I know what a mountain lion looks like as my buddy worked on this rich guy's farm that had two mountain lions (male & female) and a Bengal Tiger among other animals. I got to pet the tiger that they kept penned up in the barn - although I have to admit I was too scared to pet it's head like my buddy did (I reached through a hole and pet it's hind quarters). These mountain lions were fenced in an area surrounding the barn and I had to walk through with them walking up to me. My buddy says "go ahead and pet them" so I did. They acted a lot like a house cat only bigger -much bigger. Their heads were about to my waist maybe a little higher for the male. It was kind of scarey, but exciting at the same time. Later I asked my buddy why he had a bandage around his left hand and he says the male cougar bit down on his hand while they were playing and when he went to pull his hand out of his mouth the fang separated his little finger bone or what ever you call it from the rest of his hand like he had been cut with a knife. I sure gave him a cussin when I realized these "pets" could do so much damage when they were just "playing" and he had me walking amongst them. The funny thing is that the fence "holding" them in was about the height of a regular farm fence so I know those things were mostly pets cause that little fence wouldn't stop them from getting out if they was of a mind to leave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rhart, post: 2826350, member: 16596"] I saw one back in1996 early in the morning right after sunrise. Ran across the turnpike from Tulsa to Muskogee - just outside of Tulsa. I saw something running flat out toward the road from my right. It was about 150-yards from the road when I first noticed it. Thought it was a deer at first so I slowed down so as not to hit it. That thing didn't even slow down when it hit the fence just before crossing the road. It was tawny colored and had a tail that was about as long as its body from shoulders to butt. It shot across all four lanes of the turnpike and jumped the fence on the other side at break neck speed. Crossed about 30-yards in front of my truck. When I told the guys down in Muskogee at work about it they said it was probably somebody's escaped pet. I know what a mountain lion looks like as my buddy worked on this rich guy's farm that had two mountain lions (male & female) and a Bengal Tiger among other animals. I got to pet the tiger that they kept penned up in the barn - although I have to admit I was too scared to pet it's head like my buddy did (I reached through a hole and pet it's hind quarters). These mountain lions were fenced in an area surrounding the barn and I had to walk through with them walking up to me. My buddy says "go ahead and pet them" so I did. They acted a lot like a house cat only bigger -much bigger. Their heads were about to my waist maybe a little higher for the male. It was kind of scarey, but exciting at the same time. Later I asked my buddy why he had a bandage around his left hand and he says the male cougar bit down on his hand while they were playing and when he went to pull his hand out of his mouth the fang separated his little finger bone or what ever you call it from the rest of his hand like he had been cut with a knife. I sure gave him a cussin when I realized these "pets" could do so much damage when they were just "playing" and he had me walking amongst them. The funny thing is that the fence "holding" them in was about the height of a regular farm fence so I know those things were mostly pets cause that little fence wouldn't stop them from getting out if they was of a mind to leave. [/QUOTE]
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