Woman fought with mountain lion to save husband

Ireland Online ^ | 1.26.2007 | assorted sources

[tioga]

Amazing couple. At that age they could be lingering in a nursing home, but not these two.

SHE is 65 with her fiftieth wedding anniversary coming up? Talk about a child bride. Geez.

[HairOfTheDog]

The husband cracks me up, really.... "Honey, reach in my pocket and see if you can't poke this thing in the eye with that pen I've got!"

[HairOfTheDog]

That's a long time, glad it seems to have been such a good match!

[expatpat]

Proves that dogs are more loyal than cats, but cats are smarter. (If the feline's servant screws up and dies, then it's the servant's own fault if it is necessary to eat him/her).

Seriously, though, the cats live alone and can successfully hunt alone (except for lions), while dogs are social animals, because they must hunt together or starve.

[wrench]

So would have a handgun!

[r9etb]

Yeah, I'm chuckling about that exchange, too.

[massgopguy]

When will PETA demand that charges be filed against her?

[Teacher317]

The difference between cats and dogs:
a cat will rend you to pieces if it is big enough (after toying with you and torturing you psychologically for about an hour)...
a dog will love and obey you, no matter how big it is (unless it has been psychologically tortured).

[tutstar]

ping...

[p. henry]

You are correct about that.

Until recently, I can only remember one report of a lion attack in California. That was about 25 years ago in south Orange County. In recent years there have been at least two attacks in Northern California (one of them fatal), two attacks in San Diego County (one fatal), a man on a horse menaced in the Laguna Mountains, and a lion walking through a campground full of kids in the Cuyamacas. I've seen lion tracks while hiking within sight of subdivisions in east San Diego County. Now we have this report of a lion attacking two humans walking together.

Meanwhile the population of desert bighorns continues to decline.

It's time to repeal the Kitty Protection Initiative and reinstate lion season.

[tioga]

-with PETA members on trial for dumping bodies of animals they killed, there is no one left to protest.

[jcs1744]

That's all you need to know in the dogs vs. cats debate :)

[fish hawk]

Can't you control you pets? What happened to the leash law?

[tioga]

It's time to repeal the Kitty Protection Initiative and reinstate lion season.

It'll happen right after they start drilling in ANWR.

[fish hawk]

That was then, this is now. You will be arrested now if caught packing a gun in a State or Federal park.

[Musket]

I always had either a .357 or .44 magnum pistol with me and accessible.

Good advice. I've hiked Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park many times. Amazing place. I believe a famous Star Wars chase scene was filmed there.

[Young Werther]

Wish someone would say that to Chuck Heston and he would respond.

[USMMA_83]

PIGS...this story is about a 65 year old woman who fought off a mountain lion and you come back with a story of PIGS!

just mess'in with you...I'm sure those pigs scared you something awful...

[Musket]

You will be arrested now if caught packing a gun in a State or Federal park.

Considering how the Greenies have let the beasts repopulate the parks, that's a chance I'll have to take.

[philled]

Care for a Western regionalist novel about a stalking mountain lion, isolation, and man v nature conflict? Refer to Track of the Cat by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. The book is better than the 1954 Robert Mitchum film.