Posted on 05/16/2013 11:21:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Santa Cruz police are keeping watch on a mountain lion that is trapped in an aqueduct off of May Avenue near Ocean Street in downtown Santa Cruz.
The big cat was first spotted at about 7:30 this morning, behind a medical facility on Water Street. Police are awaiting the arrival of a University of California Santa Cruz wildlife expert to assess the situation.
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no. I start from from some road off Shannon and Hicks.
It was obviously forced out of its native habitat by development. /s
To die competing for a cat territory that's already occupied.
Get a clue: The reason the animal risked coming into urban territory is because the rest of the available habitat is taken by other cats. More importantly, if one is going to release it, the cat needs a strongly aversive treatment by humans so that it won't chance such an adventure again.
They caught one in the food court at the Capitola Mall just a few years ago.
What was he ordering?
There's a little valley just over the hill to the north that is totally undeveloped. I used to access it from Larga Vista Dr. near Union and Blossom Hill. It belongs to the University of California.
It's now the Heintz Open Space preserve (ick). At that time it was only partially overgrown. Under the management of MidPen, I'll bet it's a lot thicker now.
Naw, he was there for take-out.
You deserved it for baiting me like that, btw.
Okay, the one kind of across from an entrance to Almaden Quicksilver Park. You’ve been all the way to the top? I’ve seen bobcats up there, but I haven’t come across a mountain lion.
“the cat needs a strongly aversive treatment by humans”
Slap him around a bit? You go ahead. I’ll stand over here.
lol
You can debate where to put the cat, but figuring out how to get it out of the aqueduct doesn’t take rocket science.
When was the last time you went there? I accessed it from Regent, but I only had time to go up the side trail, so I don’t know it to well.
Maybe he’ll like it down there. I doubt there will be any vandalism on his watch. No more taggers.
Good eating too... kinda pork crossed with bear, but a unique texture....
A tasty treat for kitty.
Early 1989.
The hunting is better on the green along the river behind the County building.
“More importantly, if one is going to release it, the cat needs a strongly aversive treatment by humans so that it won’t chance such an adventure again.”
Effective aversive conditioning re: humans has only been successfully demonstrated by one group of professionals. As in all government agencies, California Panther Panderers show extremely aversion to employment of said successful ‘cougar conditioners’.
Google “Taxidermists”. Results are guaranteed. 100% success rate for over 150 years.
Note that no cat conditioned by a taxidermist has ever demonstrated threatening behavior towards any human.
Dad skipped the chili, but I ate it.
Dad didn't really speak spanish, either. He was pretty up-tight and square.
/johnny
““the cat needs a strongly aversive treatment by humans”
Slap him around a bit? You go ahead. I’ll stand over here.”
A FReeper from Evergreen, Co (and Miami) once observed, in a discussion about successful aversive conditioning of predators, that “A broken rib is the gift that keeps on giving.”
In light of such wisdom, perhaps Predator Panderers should be taught how to kick in one rib on the first capture, two on the second, ............ As long as Cutie the Cougar was sufficiently conscious to remember the source of the “Gift”, and that is a matter of adjusting the meds, there is reason to believe such aversive conditioning via the “Gift that keeps on giving” would work.
The nearest Homeland Security Thug could do the teaching, as could SWAT team members.
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