I have yet to see one but I hear one at night…last night it sounded like it was coming from the berm which is about 200 yards from my studio. There are always deer grazing on the grass around the pond in the evening and morning. A neighbor (who has seen a few of them around us and shot one) told me that the previous owner found the remains of a deer (twice) the year before last down by the pump/creek. I once knew an animal trainer in Southern California who had cougars for TV commercials and the movies; they are big (quiet) dangerous animals. The female in heat can sound like a woman yelling "Help!". Since a lot of our property is wilderness and I like to explore, I always carry a small little Ruger (SP101) with a nice crimson trace.

The poison oak is everywhere...getting rid of it has been one of my obsessions.

Wolf Pond