will cats avoid roads?

[Brent Sinclair]

Chased and treed this big tom more than once where he would cross in the same place the 3 seasons I ran him.
Everytime I found his track with a client the male quota was full in that unit.
We'd run and tree him anyway.
60 yard chase from the dog box to the tree which is 35 feet off a heavly traveled road 1/2 a mile from a major construction and oil field maintainance compound.
Let him go this time as well.

[super white hunter]

Gotta love those kind of races where you can pull your truck right to the tree.

[AZDOGMAN]

You better quit chasin him he might stop crossing roads. Lol

[Brent Sinclair]

You better quit chasin him he might stop crossing roads. Lol

He did!!!!!!

[chilcotin hillbilly]

That is a good lion, Brent well worth the wait it looks like.

[Rockydog]

all the posts are much appreciated fellers. In a month it will be finally time to get out and chase some lions and see if my new dog can teach me something.

[timothy]

You better quit chasin him he might stop crossing roads. Lol

He did!!!!!!

lol very nice Brent.

[dwalton]

Brent: I want to know what you have seen with the study up there. There seems to be a lot of opinions as to movement of lions. I have my opinion as everyone but lets face it it is all made up as to our experience. What is really so? Dewey

[Brent Sinclair]

Brent: I want to know what you have seen with the study up there. There seems to be a lot of opinions as to movement of lions. I have my opinion as everyone but lets face it it is all made up as to our experience. What is really so? Dewey

I think most of what we talk about on this subject is just that...our opinions from personal experience and what we think lions do.
That is what keeps this topic so interesting and never ending...
There are so many variables that effect a lions movement, and they fool the best of us from what we think is crediable data.
A lion in Alberta where I hunt is totaly different from a lion in Utah.
Why???
Avalibility of food, avaliable number of females, number of males to compete with in the area..... the list is endless.
I went out this morning with the reciever to try to locate 4 of our collared lions that we will be taking the collars off in a couple weeks.
10 Days ago the elk biologist had 4 of the 5 signals on there reciever when they were looking for collared elk.
1 collar on a small female has been thought to have quit last March.
We have not heard that female since then...
A week ago I got an email with a trailcam photo of a collared lion and I thought it was the lion we were missing as she is in the same area we collared her in and she has a different look to her....I had her frequincy on the reciever just checking and she came in booming right where the trail cam is this morning ...
When we remove and down load her collar it will tell us where she has been for the last 7 months.
I guess what I am saying is ...they will always keep us talking about movement, I do know one thing for certain though... they have me wondering just how much do I really know about lions!!!