Posted on 05/18/2009 11:27:01 AM PDT by BGHater
Ok, so are mountain lions rare there? Come to CA you can catch all you want and take them home, just don’t let the enviros catch ya!
“Looks like what I would call a mountain lion. Hmm...”
Mountain Lions, Cougars, Pumas, Catamounts, Ghost Cats and maybe some other names all refer to the same beast.
Widdel Wabbits
A precious little girl walks into a pet shop and asks, in the sweetest little lisp, between two missing teeth,
“Excuthe me, mithter, do you keep widdle wabbits?”
As the shopkeeper’s heart melts, he gets down on his knees so that he’s on her level and asks,
“Do you want a widdle white wabbit, or a thoft and fuwwy bwack wabbit, or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabbit over there?”
She, in turn, blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and says, in a tiny quiet voice,
“I don’t think my python weally givth a thit.”
I understand that (biology teacher here) but I was trying to use something other than cougar since the word has been used to mean something altogether different.
lol - good one!
Two wrongs don’t make a Wight
Here kitty, kitty, kitty. . .
Right proportions for a panther, bobcats are chunkier.
No doubt that it is a mountain lion. I’ve hunted them for years and was even involved in a DFG study of their kills. In the western US the mountain lion habitat is a direct overlay of the deer habitat. If you have deer then there are lions around. Lions in big city parks and near housing tracts are a catastrophe looking to happen. In rural or more remote areas you will probably never even see the big cats that are there. A few well trained hounds can show you in a short time what you have. Without the dogs your chances of finding or seeing this cat again are slim.
“I understand that (biology teacher here)...”
Well, slap me hard. It seems my humor detector shut down for a minute.
How do you get a cougar on a camera? How’s it balance itself?
LOL I won’t slap you, I think I wasn’t very clear (when I reread what I wrote). I was musing out loud and sometimes that doesn’t come across here. We are on the same page!
I know we had them in the Mnts. of NM where I lived and I never saw one. My husband did, once, I think the story goes that it leaped out of a tree, right over his head (he was on a horse). He grew up there and I think that was the only time he saw one. They are very stealthy. I certainly wouldn’t want to meet a hungry one!
When Mrs. Wong had a white baby, Mr. Wong said "two Wongs don't make a white!"
Grandpa Wong said "it was purely occidental!"
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