Exactly, this lady survived but wouldn't have but for a companion she was bike riding with that scared the cougar off. The previous day or two the same cougar killed a man, they found his body along side the same bikeway.
Walking a dog in Cougar country is best described as “Trolling for cougar.”
When shot on sight, ambush predators soon learn which potential prey to avoid.
Once, California cougar learned from their mothers that the two legged thing was a “telescopic dog”, able to bark when it saw a cougar and bite it regardless of how far away it was.
Then Commiefornia Urban Voters passed a law banning the shooting of cougars. Soon young cougar were grabbing women by the face and dragging them off to eat.
Note the following:
23 April. (Attack #8, death #4) Barbara Schoener, 40, a friend of my sister and a long-distance runner in excellent physical shape, was killed by an 80-pound female mountain lion in Northern California on the American River Canyon trail in the Auburn State Recreation Area.
California is not the Garden Of Eden, and they can’t create a place where cougar lived alongside people - there is a limit to the powers of mere bureaucraps and idiotic socialism infected voters.
Now, cougars eat the fools - a punishment they brought on themselves.
The Beast in the Garden.
They don’t really teach each other, but the bolder ones die off sooner.
There’s a reason they make sound suppresors. :-)
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/02/us/cougar-is-killed-for-jogger-s-death-in-california-park.html
It seems to me that people who jog in isolated areas where cougar encounters are possible should bring some kind of weapon along, whether it’s an Arkansas toothpick or a gun.
“When shot on sight, ambush predators soon learn which potential prey to avoid”.
What - do they get together afterwards an have a meeting?
“All right everybody - now listen up! Morris got himself blasted by a two-legger yesterday. If any of you cats see one of those things out there you need to turn tail and run like hell outta there!”
Exactly, this lady survived but wouldn't have but for a companion she was bike riding with that scared the cougar off. The previous day or two the same cougar killed a man, they found his body along side the same bikeway.