DON’T GO WHERE MOUNTAIN LIONS LIVE!
Posted on 05/19/2018 6:32:44 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A man is dead and another was taken to Harborview Medical Center on Saturday afternoon after a highly unusual fatal mountain lion attack near North Bend east of Seattle in the Cascades... The mountain lion was tracked and killed.
(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...
No offense but your comment was in orbit
Just off the top of my head observations after 20 years here
Older women are often hard cases....some are church ladies and some have gotten hurt by a prick male and they ain’t over it
Pit bulls are hated
Cats revered and then some
Bibles thumped..loudly....damnations forthcoming
Capital punishment is a fetish
90% are very very risk averse and blame tragedy that way
Sky diver or mountain climber dies usual refrain of they had it coming or they risked the rescue team on the latter....from couch tater keyboard recon rangers
And when human dies from wild animal it’s always the humans fault unless it’s a child then it’s blame the parents
Tell me I’m lying
The outdoors ain’t Walt Disney. We all know meat is a food source, advance at your leisure. Got time drive through Yellowstone and watch people treat it like a petting zoo. Then read the stories about the poor DS getting mauled, bit; chased, eaten, etc. Reading about it doesn’t make it real. Try not to understand it while it eats you.
Sorry didn’t catch your post about just off the top of your head crap. Why should I care about any of that sh1t about what you encounter, if you already recognize it and still screw it up. Feel free to hang glide into the face of the Grand Teton. Please GoPro it to YouTube save me the hike.
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no joke, try facing one
lighten up newbie
Mountain lions are seen regularly in city areas. There is one that haunts the west side of Carson City, Nevada. Cops on patrol see it in the early mornings regularly.
They also live in the hills around Sunland, in Southern Calif. More than one security cam photo of them roaming back yards.
When I lived in So Calif. I boarded my horses in Brown’s Canyon, in the north west corner of the San
Fernando Valley.
We had been riding on a Saturday, and one of the riders pointed out the mountain lion sitting on the ridge-—right above the boarding ranch, which had over 85 horses.
“here’s an idea, DON’T GO WHERE MOUNTAIN LIONS LIVE!”
So we should just avoid most areas?
A better idea would be to hunt down and kill all the mountain lions.
DON’T GO WHERE MOUNTAIN LIONS LIVE!
That’s a conservative map of their range. They are in Nebraska and into the middle of Iowa.
Driving the interstate through Tennessee , a rain squall and almost hit one that looked just like that one.
From the nose to the butt end, not including the tail, was similar to the frontend width on my Ford Expedition.
Close, and a close match.
all except for one ... the cougar, because they considered it to have no human qualities.
Because it was a perfect hunting animal?
Or perhaps, because it would prey on the Natives?
Recently our grandkids had their grammar school (K-6) on lockdown, for a pack of coyotes roaming the school playground.
One side of the school is a large forest preserve, the other is open.
They brought the busses to the open side and surrounded it with the staff.
All that in the wilds of DuPage!
The Natives would associate a positive quality to each animal they anthropomorphized, like the Raven = intelligence, the Bear = strength, the Salmon = stamina, etc.
With its terrifying attacks without warning - something Natives surely would have encountered over the years, living so close to the land - the cougar was probably seen as having nothing positive to emulate.
Cats kill...sometimes just for shits and giggles
Occasionally it appears that way?
Wife works for a gov agency involved with critters.
Calls about coyotes harassing dogs in our neck of the woods were received. I pass this location most nights, taking our dogs for a spin.
Coyotes eating dogs, common; hanging around harassing dogs, unusual.
The biologist said a few (NOT ALL) dogs are considered a threat by the coyotes and given the chance, will kill them.
Male Labs, that now have a chainlink top on their run.
We have coyotes on my property and you hear that feline sounding howling frequently at night
I’ve got two large male uncut Rotts though they are in the house due to my wife who spoils them
The coyotes give them berth but indeed they will for sure kill vulnerable dogs and eat them
Bobcats will do same to house cats...I lost my Angoran that way
Lol
Yes be safe at home and be a coward about life
That’s your choice
You can sit at home with zero empathy for folks who die taking some risk knowing you’re safe and sound
You ain’t ever busted a grape
What a way to live
If you’re a girl I can kind of understand risk aversion but if you’re a man...geez
I forgot to add to that list of observations about freeperdom
Many live to scold when given the chance....
Ring a bell.
You’re a few years older than me....are you just cranky now?
I went back and looked again.....you’re a newbie and half your posts are bitching and being ad hominem
That’s why you’re here isn’t it.
To vent?
Well you go ahead
They seem to like to snack on mountain bikers here in SoCal.. when that happens it gets blamed on “old lion, food scarce”. Dunno if that’s the case or not... I think it’s the Animals Are Our Friends faction making excuses... “oh, the Great White just thought you were a seal, it really didn’t mean to eat your leg”.
It could be that a passing biker in the boondocks looks like Meals On Wheels and the mountain lion just thinks that this beats the hell out of hunting.
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