Are there mountain lions around Lake Athens? According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department website, they have “records of mountain lions occurring in every county of Texas except for the northernmost counties of the Panhandle.”
We were contacted recently by LAPOA member Brad Reid, who told us about a nearby neighbor, Coy Dulaney, who captured an image on his game camera not long before Christmas that appears to be a mountain lion (a.k.a., cougar, panther, catamount or puma). Brad got a copy of the photo and Coy’s verbal okay for us to use it.
Game camera photo courtesy of Coy Dulaney
The red oval on this map shows the approximate area of the sighting.
Location of cougar sighting
Those of us with pets may want to keep them indoors, particularly at night. Special thanks to Coy Dulaney for the use of the photo and to Brad Reid for bringing this to our attention!
