Posted on 06/03/2018 2:00:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase
This house is located in a woody area outside of the city of Naples, where lots of wild animals walk around, like bears and panthers.
Keep your pets safe if you live in an area like this!
Video here. Action ends at 0:30.
I live in Tempe, a suburb of Phoenix. I live in a mature (30 year old) residential area that’s surrounded by busy streets, and lots of long-developed commercial and industrial areas. I’m not on the edge of the desert.
I NEVER let my cats out anymore, not even for five minutes. We have roaming coyotes in the area, and they jump 7 foot backyard fences like they’re nothing. They have killed many cats and dogs in the last couple of years. We also have a couple of great horned owls who go after cats and small dogs, sometimes even in the day time.An owl is too light to carry off a dog’s or cat’s whole body. So they kill their prey, rip it to shreds on the ground, then carry the pieces back to their nests. It’s brutal.
Little kitty needed a couple of Turkish Kangal dogs for companions.
That’s nothing.
Around our parts the cougs have been eating androgenous bicycle riders.
Nature can be a bitch! When you live on the edge of a wild area you have take precautions with your children and pets. You can no more blame a wild predator than you can your kitty when it kills a bird, lizard or whatever.
“Predators kill tremendous amounts of pets every year.”
Too many people inflicting their pets on the world. Darwin
Put animals tied up as bait. Watch cameras live. Cougar will return. Come from around back corner with 12ga JTS or similar semi-auto shotgun loaded with 00 Buck. Should do the job. Shoot, shovel and shut up.
Its getting that way everywhere.
A 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 (who else?)
Both of the veterinary clinics in this area have big signs in their reception areas warning people not to leave pets outdoors because coyotes, mountain lions and feral hogs commonly roam out here and kill pet dogs and cats.
Domestic pets are indoors most of the timne-a pet unattended outdoors is take-out food for predators-especially at night, fence or no fence-mountain lions can jump right out of trees on a tied up dog, too...
“In Arizona, coyotes are known for killing great numbers of dogs and cats. Many have seen their pet killed in front of them, or at least limply dangling from the jaws of the coyote as the killer trots off into the desert.”
As generally good as AZ is on guns it is illegal to shoot in defense of your pet in city limits. “Shannons law”. Really badly written garbage.
No wild cats? That musta been a feline cross-dressing great Dane...
Well dayum, you are correct, they are from the same leopard family, size and colorization do depend on the region.
Guess panthers are MS-13?
I was recently talking to a guy who hunts and tags cougar for Oregon Fish & Wildlife. Cougar, in the Northwest, are increasingly killing pets, livestock and bicyclists.
Naples is called Southwest Florida, South Florida is the East Coast, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, etc.
Anyway I expect this to cause a rift between the cat loving liberals and the big cat loving liberal environmentalists.
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>> “ Cougar, in the Northwest, are increasingly killing pets, livestock and bicyclists.” <<
Likely due to California’s insane lion protection laws.
Overpopulation from CA spreads outward.
The mountain lion has been a protected species in this state ever since it was hunted almost to extinction by people with more money than sense-you can’t kill it unless you can prove you were attacked-if you choose to live in a remote area, as I do, you really need to learn how to protect your pets and property. The mountain lions do not go after livestock behind game fencing-likely because here near the river, there are plenty of deer and small game to eat. But a pet behind an ordinary yard fence is a meal of opportunity for predators...
By the way-if the population of mountain lions reaches an over-saturation point, there wikl be a season on them like any other animal with a healthy population that is stable-it is already that way in some Northern states, and there is a wolf season in Alaska-that is sensible, sustainable wildlife management-Cali goes too far the other way, which unbalances the predator/prey population...
Bicycle riders look like deer to cougars. I am surprised more attacks don’t happen
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