Posted on 10/16/2020 11:46:27 AM PDT by SJackson
Love to read it. Title?
The guy had to know that... so why did he approach the cubs?
millennials will do it every time - mom or dad will fix it if something goes wrong.
That’s the first time I’ve seen or heard of a cougar give a bluff charge. Humans call it a trespass warning. There was a video a few years back where a black bear escorted a Canadian hiker almost back to his car in a parking lot. Just before leaving, the bear (re-)scent marked a boundary tree next to the trail.
The main thing I can’t figure out about that video is it took him 6 minutes to realize he should pick up a rock and throw it at the cougar, at which point it turned tail and ran.
Rocks work on everything I’ve tried them on except aggressive wild hogs.
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Did you have to hit the animals, or like this guy just hit the ground with it near them?
For certain, if you see a Mountain Lion, it’s not hunting you.
Be prepared to say "ouch""
Tell that to Andy Peterson, who back in 1998 was hiking down a trail in Colorado when he spotted a mountain lion in a meadow beneath a tree chewing on s stick. The big cat made it's way to the trail and blocked Andy's path. The man started walking backwards like in the video, and the cat followed him, snarling and hissing before finally charging him. The lion clamped onto the Andy's head dragging him to the ground. His scalp oozing blood, Andy reached up and placed his thumb in one of the cat's eyes gouging it out. The cat let go and the man made it back to his vehicle.
The story can be found in "The Beast in the Garden" a book about lion attacks in Colorado.
https://rglennkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Thursdays-in-the-Grotto_R-Glenn-Kelly_eBook-Edition.pdf
The panther is like a leopard,
Except it hasn’t been peppered.
Should you behold a panther crouch,
Prepare to say Ouch.
Better yet, if called by a panther,
Don’t anther.
— Ogden Nash
Beth Pratt is the leader of a nitwit anthropomorphic cult who believes Yogi Bear steals picnic baskets from Mickey Mouse.
Classic read: The Track of the Cat by Walter van Tilburg Clark
Very true
If you DO “SEE” one “stalking” you, WATCH YOUR BACK.
Its because its buddy is behind you ready to bite the back of your neck
My uncle took a shot at 2 javalinas hit one in head, it ricocheted and that pig shook it off, looked at other pig and started a fight...
- Did you have to hit the animals, or like this guy just hit the ground with it near them?
I've done both. But, last month I encountered a large wild hog that challenged me while I was driving a T-post (fence post) into the ground with a T-post driver. I guess the loud pounding sound made him angry. He ran up within about 10 feet of me, and I pelted him with a pair of fencing pliers I had in my back pocket. He stopped and looked at me like "That's all you got?" He lunged at me and I smacked him in the head with that 20lb T-post driver. That seemed to do the trick. He didn't want any more of that. This happened the one day I didn't pack a gun. Lesson learned.
I always carry a Ruger 45 Long Colt, “when gunpowder speaks the wildlife listens”!
Not necessarily true; used to have a great big old male mountain lion walk past my shop every morning and evening.
Up the mountain in the morning, back down the mountain in the evening, we had ourselves an agreement, “you don’t bother me, my dogs, or my livestock and I won’t put a 45 or 308 slug through your brain pan”.
Every day and evening for seven years, one day he just never showed up again.
That hasn’t been true for at least the last 10 years.
A fox came into my house about 6 years ago and bit me on it’s way in the door.
It was 11pm and I was letting the dogs out for their last business before we all turned in for the night, I had just got out of the shower so I opened the door in my skivvy drawers to let the dogs out when the fox came on in.
Bit me on my lower right leg on his way in.
Beat the damn thing to death with a broom handle and hung it out on the porch to freeze (about 14 degrees outside December 23rd), figured I would skin it out the next morning.
Got to thinking about it later on that night “HEY STUPID, FOXES DON’T COME INTO YOUR HOUSE WITH 4 DOGS IN RESIDENCE), took the fox into Weaverville the next Monday morning, by Thursday they told me it was RABID.
Got the shots; one in each shoulder first day I saw the doctor (Friday morning), seven more shots after that, one a week, was told I could pick either arm or buttock.
I switched them up just for comforts sake. :)
They don’t hurt anymore than a flu shot.
5th MEB
It was a total of 9 shots for me but that was a few years ago.
Arm or butt, my choice, but they don’t hurt any more than a flu or tetanus shot.
I had a similar realization last year. I was walking one of the dogs down the wooded hill, when he turned around and started barking. When I turned I saw a fox about ten feet behind us. I made eye contact with him and started talking to him. He didn't attack, and after we looked at each other for a while I was not scared of him, but it occurred to me that foxes should not act that way. I backed away from him while yelling at him, and eventually he limped back into the woods (he was injured.)
The next week a neighbor reported that a rabid fox had been put down a few days earlier.
About 30 years ago I was elk hunting in the backwoods of Montana near a place called Two Dot. I was sitting on a hillside watching across a valley where the elk had been coming out at night to dig through the snow foraging.
It was getting late, but with the snow on the ground I could push my time because of the backdrop. When it finally got too dark to “legally” see I stood up to leave and a damn cougar let out a growl in the heavy brush behind me.
Raised my rifle but of course with a 12x scope at night in brush it was useless, grabbed my sidearm as fast as I could draw it and proceeded to walk the mile or so back to the truck constantly spinning around, must have looked like a damn ballerina.
Aside from being charged out of the brush by a huge sow from just a few feet away once it was the only time I ever really felt that true rush our ancestors must have felt all the time out there.
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