Posted on 01/04/2010 7:12:50 PM PST by traumer
prayers up for the kid and the doggie!
And the mother said “I felt so helpless, there was nothing I could do..”
Hmm, one would think living in the back country a 12 gauge is always handy around the home.
Golden retrievers are such fanstastic dogs.
I see the poor dog survived. Now why would this cat attack a child? Are food supplies low? Reminds me of the coyotes coming after children in the LA area.
Golden dogs protect the childrens future. Blue Dogs turn on them and team up with the predators.
A sizable percentage of mountain lion attacks the last decade have come from rabid animals. Rabies usually subsides in the winter months, but it's still a possibility. Hopefully, the dog has had his shots.
Amen to that, Blue Dogs are totally worthless as we have now seen.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
The operative word is LION.
Good Dog!
That boy was old enough to be trained-up with a couple thousand big bore, wide, flat-nosed lead bullets to put an end to the mountain lion before it got to the dog. After a couple thousand of those in training, aiming isn’t necessary for accurate hits on close range varmints like mountain lions.
Shooting Holes in Wounding Theories:
The Mechanics of Terminal Ballistics
http://www.rathcoombe.net/sci-tech/ballistics/wounding.html
poor baby.
Can you own a shotgun in Canada... ?
Food supplies could be low because of the horrific cold that has hit basically the entire northern hemisphere.
That’s always been one of my biggest problems with AGW (besides the fact that the “science” is garbage): Some warming would be GOOD for the biosphere (including us). Cold? Now that’s a whole different matter...
Mountain lions have lost their fear of man in many areas. There have been many attacks in California on joggers, most of whom didn’t survive. There is a picture of a mountain lion in this article below. Apparently this actually was killed in Arizona according to Snopes, and weighed around 220 lbs.
http://www.outdooroddities.com/2008/12/18/huge-cat-mountain-lion-killed-near-swensen-texas/
The paw was reported as 8” across. One big cat. I saw one at Lake Belton near Ft Hood late one night. I didn’t go out after dark without my 44 mag after that.
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