[Rebelbase]

The collapse of liberalism will bring people back to their senses and these critters will have short days in the subdivisions.

Time frame? Who knows.

[doc1019]

Portends the defeat of Obama (no particular insight, just thought I would throw it in here). LOL!

[jeffc]

Things will change rapidly when a soccer mom or small child is mauled to death by a wild animal in their front or back yard. Sad that it will take something like that to change the minds of those in charge.

[timlilje]

OMG Here come the POLAR BEARS!!

[irishtenor]

I see coyotes while riding my bicycle home from work late at night. I am just hoping they are not looking at me as “Meals On Wheels.”

[driftless2]

I live semi in the country. A housing development next to cropland. One acre properties. When my wife and I moved in eight years ago, we never heard coyotes. Now we hear their yipping whining howls almost nightly. And it sounds like they’re very close.

[ThomasThomas]

[Uncle Chip]

It shouldn’t surprise anybody to find cougars or other wildlife in Santa Monica.

[PBRCat]

The Los Angeles newspaper is associated with another paper in Chicago that ran an almost identical story. In Illinois, the focus was upon sightings of bears and gray wolves in outlying areas, as well as occasional cougars. The cougars apparently have wandered in from as far away as South Dakota. One was shot and killed by a police officer a year or two back, but there have been more unconfirmed reports of other cougars.

Coyotes, deer, raccoons, oppossums, rabbits and skunks are fairly prominent in urban areas (hawks are also visible in flight).

[DallasDeb]

Odd this was posted now. Just saw a news item on TV about 6 bobcats caught in the same neighborhood in Frisco, north of Dallas, very recently (one today). When I was growing up, Frisco was nothing but farm land. We had friends that lived out there and it took more than hour to get there on backroads. Today, with highways, I can get there in 15 minutes.

[Elsiejay]

I’m surprised that there have not been reports of feral pigs invading suburban residential areas.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The libs will say this is because we are invading their territory. The truth is that the carnivores no longer fear us because we’ve stopped shooting them.

[43north]

I live on 20 acres of wooded mountainside in Northern Idaho. My wife operates the non-profit “Mystic Farm Wildlife Rescue” (she accepts donations on her website) and we have lots of young deer and elk in pens on our property plus a pygmy goat, chickens, 3 cats, and two mini horses.

We had coyote problems when we first moved here. My wife found a solar-powered flashing red LED device called a “Nite Guard” online. It is 2.2 x 2.5 x 1.2 inches and weighs 3.2 oz. We hung these around our property and on the four sides of the critter pens and we have not had any ‘yotes in close since then. They are available from Amazon and lots of other places.

The theory is that the flashing red LED fools the predators into thinking there is another “red-eyed” predator who is watching them and they leave the area. I was skeptical at first but we have used them for two seasons and no predator problems since then.

My personal choice is to blast them with a .223 with night vision but this is a LOT easier and cheaper. Less noisy too.

You got predator problems? Check this out.

[Salgak]

I saw what I **THOUGHT** was a small pack of coyotes along I-66, ~60 miles west of DC, last weekend. . .

[5th MEB]

I live in a rural area, nearest neighbor is 3 miles away. I will put up with a certain amount of poultry raiding and vandalism from the critters but when they come around during the daylight hours and are not afraid any more they have to go.
Last night about 1:30am, I introduced one very large black furred critter to Mr. Garrand. The critter had got 19 of my chickens and caused about 3800 dollars to property over the last 6 months, he won't do that any more. WHEN GUNPOWDER SPEAKS, THE WILDLIFE LISTENS.

[TigersEye]

It’s probably a sign that people live like pigs and keep a healthy mouse and rat population going.

[GladesGuru]

Thanks to enviro-whackos such as BCNP’s Lil Debbie, Naples has designated its golf courses as “panther corridors”

They even proudly place road sings announcing “Panther crossings”.

All dangerous predators are not on four feet.

[GladesGuru]

“Road signs”, not “road sings”.

Sorry.

[muir_redwoods]

I’m in the country. Coyotes are commonplace, bears are around and my wife and I saw a mountain lion a year ago July.

One does not let the dogs run free here if one values the dogs. I walk them but never w/o a .357 at least.