Posted on 02/26/2021 3:22:45 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The cat may be Getting Out of Dodge due to the owner of the kill (bear?) showing up to take possession.
Someone once gave me a wine-making kit for Christmas.
I followed all the directions perfectly, and when that stuff had been bottled, it was stronger than any port I’d had.
Gave me the only hangover I’ve ever experienced.
I stay away from anything that even pretends to spirits, now :-)
“said it was a very healthy coyote.”
I see coyotes often, most of the time mangy-looking and scrawny.
But one day riding my bike through a local woods, I thought it was a German Shepard on the trail?
As I came closer, it was a coyote; beautiful fur, full and muscular looking and it had a cat in its mouth!
This one apparently tapped into a special food source?
Sounds like the big cat decathlon champ. Runs fast and jumps high and far.
We have coyotes in the Maryland suburbs of DC, now.
We first got them in Western Maryland back in the 1970s, but now they’re all over the state.
It was a small tributary, and as they slowly proceeded in the dark, they heard a soft splash. When they turned on a spotlight, they saw a tiger dragging a guy up the riverbank by his head.
Apparently, there were high banks on both sides of the stream, and the tiger had leaped over the boat, snatched one of the poachers out of the boat by his head in mid-air, and landed on the other side.
The tiger did not even so much as rock the little boat. Until they were out of there, they all stood back to back with guns at the ready.
After watching that video of the woman in China who got out of her car and was nailed by the tiger, I don’t doubt the veracity of that story I heard for a single second. It looked like it grabbed that woman by her lower back with its teeth on each side of her spine and made off with her with seemingly no effort at all.
This was taken in a residential area of about 40 smaller acreages. There’s a highway about a 1/4 mile away that provides a supply of hit deer who make their way into the yards. We’ve also had bobcats and a mountain lion sighting.
Now we’re seeing a lot of bald eagles.
There are videos where they put a 3” rope with one end in a lioness cage and the other end where they’ve had 3 or 4, young adult men pulling and not even budging the lioness.
“Yikes! So basically, take the abilities of your average house cat, Scale everything up by 10X, and you’ve got a mountain lion.”
Yep. But don’t try to rub it’s tummy. They don’t like that.
Throwing steaks at it works best.
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
...What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp! ...
One of my kids got stalked by cougars pretty frequently as he walked home 5 miles up a mountain road in eastern Wa
He started taking a laser pointer and made them chase it away from him
One bright, moonlit night, I had the dog indoors, because it was extremely cold out (minus-30s or colder). The ice on the ground was about a foot thick.
Went outside, and two mountain lions were in his pen. One of them had its head in his doghouse, eating his food.
They both hopped over the dog’s six-foot fence and bounded uphill to about 150 yards away from me and stopped, staring at me. They only hopped a few times and covered that distance within a very few seconds.
They try to attack a victim, human or large animal, by stalking from behind first. If they charge, they jump up from behind and chomp on the back of the neck with their jaws.
If you’re in mountain lion country without a flashlight at night, look behind you every now and then. They shy away from attacking a man or woman who is looking at them. Keep small children indoors at night.
Never heard them growl like the sound effects for mountain lions in movies. Most of the time, when going for food, they don’t make any noise. Other than that, I only heard the female mating call. Heard it many times. Short screeching sounds, like a large bird or something.
It is impressive, that poem. It is a classic for a reason...
I’ve seen that!
People think humans are strong, and we are...at using our brains.
But for physical strength, we don’t match wild animals. Anyone who has tried to pick up a house cat that didn’t want to be cornered and picked up, or who has gotten into an altercation of some kind with a chimpanzee knows that “Animal Strength” means something.
Then, you scale that up to an 800 pound tiger?
Good thing we got brains and guns.
For some reason I am always cheering for the tiger in that video.
Look big, look strong, and a 44 magnum never hurts.
Hard not to root for something with that much guts.
Even the elephant is backing away...
Of course, when you see where that downstroke of the clawed party is heading...
Based on the trunk length of the mountain lion I’d estimate the cat was no more than 8 or 9 feet in the air.
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