Cougar hunting

While Will was away down on business in Utah, we found out this kitty was hanging out 100 yards away from where we play everyday! Not a very comforting thought. We were headed down into town to do some errands one August morning, and spotted 3 of our rams lying dead in the field. I whipped the suburban around and headed back up to the house, and ran down to the field to check it out! Two of them were pretty gory and eaten up, then I realized that we were missing quite a bit more sheep! We only had 4 of our 10 sheep left! One of the missing included Flower, our two week old lamb the boys were really attached to. =( So, I called daddy, and he decided he would come home right away, cutting his trip short by quite a bit. The next couple days, dealing with the cougar, newspaper reporters, and even a lady from a local TV station who came out to do a story on it was quite emotional and draining, not just because it was sad to lose our sheep, but for the safety of our boys. This happened just a couple days before Saginaw #1 started! We were very relieved to say the least that they tracked the cougar the next day with hound dogs, treed it, and killed it. The boys all thought the events were quite neat! Chet especially wanted everything to do with helping out in regards to the cougar! A neat (and scary) experience for them. Here are some TV links to look at if you are interested:
http://kezi.com/news/local/221238
http://kezi.com/news/local/221386
And now we can say, we are enjoying the cougar...he is delicious! They let us keep the cougar and the meat!