Bill_Simpkins Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 (edited) That is a cedar tree correct? Well, the bark on a cedar can be peeled off. Whatever is doing it doesn't have to reach up 20 feet. Just has to get a good grip down low, probably with it's teeth, then jerk backwards till it rips up the tree and finally breaks off. Needs a little strength to do this and climb a few feet up. So my guess is a bear. Edited May 27, 2003 by Bill_Simpkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CascadeClimber Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 Gaston_Lagaffe said: Do you call Fish and Wildlife on something like this? Â I called them after my first cat went AWOL, about the time the scratches first appeared and we found the scat. They aren't at all interested unless the animal has been seen several times. Â -L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alasdair Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Dido on the squirrel. I have watched squirrels do this to trees. They use it for their nests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Squirels, bears, haha... I would bet any of you money that the marks on the tree were cause by a porcupine, and the missing cats cause by a bob cat (linx), or a cyote... If your worried about bears being in your yard the animals I mentioned are in the hood too... Bears are clumsy, and would fuck with other stuff... night time, 20ft up, strips of barck missing, no other signs of intruder, it gotsa be a porupine... Â Get a motion detected camera set up and catch the beast in the act... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CascadeClimber Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 Fejas said: and the missing cats cause by a bob cat (linx), or a cyote... Â Get a motion detected camera set up and catch the beast in the act... Â My wife saw a bobcat on the fence a couple years ago, and I'm working on the camera... Â Thanks all for the input. Â -L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 I would be more inclined to think it was the porcupine than a squirrel. Squirrels usually go for smaller branches and chew the bark down to the cambium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 The damage looks similar to other damage I've seen done by porcupines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lummox Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 you stupid mother fuckers wouldnt recognize your cock in your fist. obvi-fucking-ously those marks on the tree were made by a horny sasquatch. nuff said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 finally got time to dig into this from here: "A strict vegetarian, the Common Porcupine feeds on leaves, twigs, and such green plants as skunk cabbage, lupines, and clover in spring; in winter, it chews through the rough outer bark of various trees, including pines, fir, cedar, and hemlock, to get at the inner bark (cambium), on which it then mainly subsists. Like many herbivores, the porcupine has bacteria in its digestive tract containing enzymes that help to digest the cellulose and other substances not sufficiently broken down by normal digestive enzymes. This animal has favored feeding trees that can be recognized by their cropped and stunted upper branches and bare wood. Another unmistakable sign of porcupines, often littering the ground under favorite trees, are "niptwigs," terminal branches of trees that have been cut off and their leaves or buds eaten. " Â and if you're really a geek, check this out: http://wildlife.tamu.edu/publications/NebraskaExtension/CWDPDF/DAMAGE/DAM_ID.PDF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 one o these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 AlpineK said: I would be more inclined to think it was the porcupine than a squirrel. Squirrels usually go for smaller branches and chew the bark down to the cambium. I've watched em do it at my house. Are you calling me a liar?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 great suff Thinker.... Â CC, you should wet the ground under the tree to pick up some traks, and then identify them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 do you live near the water? it could have been one of these Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Dru said: one o these? Â Fuck that dood... one of the most visious creature in the wild, they've been know to attack grizzly bears in the alaskan wilderness... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Fejas said: Dru said: one o these?  Fuck that dood... one of the most visious creature in the wild, they've been know to attack grizzly bears in the alaskan wilderness...  i should tell the story about the wolverine and the food bucket and the Alberta skiiers who sat on the food bucket with the wolverine inside up at Waddington "wow this big weasel won't even leave when we hit it with the ski pole! I know lets drop this plastic bucket on it!"  the stuff about wolverine fighting grizzly bear is a big myth perpetrated by Hollywood nature "documentary" just like the one where they pushed the lemmings off a cliff.  lemming  in fact the wolverine is a cowardly creature in that it will almost never fight; according to some old trappers of my acquaintance it won't even fight when its in the leg hold trap and the trapper is coming to kill it with the axe.  so its a good thing there aint no big market for wolverine fur these days  incidentally i saw a mother wolverine denning not far from Coquihalla Highway last yr, about all of 500m from the Needle Peak ski trail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairweather Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Looks to me like the tree has taken a hit from a small lightning bolt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Dru said: Fejas said: Dru said: one o these?  Fuck that dood... one of the most visious creature in the wild, they've been know to attack grizzly bears in the alaskan wilderness...  i should tell the story about the wolverine and the food bucket and the Alberta skiiers who sat on the food bucket with the wolverine inside up at Waddington "wow this big weasel won't even leave when we hit it with the ski pole! I know lets drop this plastic bucket on it!"  the stuff about wolverine fighting grizzly bear is a big myth perpetrated by Hollywood nature "documentary" just like the one where they pushed the lemmings off a cliff.  lemming  in fact the wolverine is a cowardly creature in that it will almost never fight; according to some old trappers of my acquaintance it won't even fight when its in the leg hold trap and the trapper is coming to kill it with the axe.  so its a good thing there aint no big market for wolverine fur these days  incidentally i saw a mother wolverine denning not far from Coquihalla Highway last yr, about all of 500m from the Needle Peak ski trail.  Oh no, man they are ferocious... I saw one take a guys leg right off, just ran out of the bush and latched on... the fucker was snarlen and terin at this poor gapers leg like it was hot pink on an icy cold day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 CascadeClimber said: ...In the last two years we've had two cats get out of the house, never to be seen again. Â About a year ago we found a large, tarry dropping in the back yard... Â One of the cats??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 You know with all the guesses in this thread not one single person guessed hyenas!   Or it could have been hedgehogs... vicious little creatures   Or of course, one of the penguin cats that escaped from the zoo   They will just tear into trees. Hate them passionately, because they come from the only treeless continent on Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaper_Jeffy Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 You guys have it all wrong. I've already solved this question for CC, it's a Sasquath of course! In fact the other day I was at CC's house and took this exact photo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Sadly, this kind of thing happens more than you realize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CascadeClimber Posted August 22, 2004 Author Share Posted August 22, 2004 Bug wins: My wife finally caught the native squirrels tearing the bark off the tree. Maybe the sasquath was eating the squirrles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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