Posted on 04/17/2012 11:58:05 AM PDT by Red Steel
The ranchers in Indian Valley, Genesee and Taylorsville, Plumas Co. have had 7 mountain lions killed this year after they had lost pets and livestock. One after this one was killed. Alicia Knadler, Indian Valley editor, wrote the following story in the March 27 Lassen County Times.
"Blood and gore and the blank stares of his baby and adult goats greeted Genesee youth Paul Astles when he went to do his chores in the barn before school Monday, March 12.
"He discoved a full-scale slaughter of his kids and adults. (Heather Kingdon told me he lost nine head that night.) "It was a mess in there," said a fellow rancher who saw it.
"Astles is the same young man who lost several goats to mountain lions in late January.
"There were four lions together on that hunt, according to Heather Kingdon, the neighbor whose border collie puppy was snatched off the porch by a lion the day before. That lion was killed with the dog's body still in its mouth.
"Kingdon saw three lions that were probably a mother and her young, and another adult, a rather skinny female.
"She was afraid this new kill was another group hunt, unheard of in mountain lions, but a professional tracker doesn't think so. "I saw one track, a big one", she said, before preparing for yet another night hunt Tuesday, March 13.
"A lion's modus operandi is to partially bury its kill and return to feed at a later time, probably the next night. And that is exactly when the hunter met the biggest tomcat he'd ever seen in his life.
"It was a monster cat," he said.
"Estimates were that it weighed close to 200 pounds. Lions do not hunt in groups, that is one thing he and the experts at the Dept. of Fish and Game agree on.
DFG public information officer Andrew Hughan was emphatic about that and refused to validate the possibility of a group hunt by other than a mother and her young.
"There is no history, science or evidence to support that," he said. "Mountain lions are solitary animals."
"This makes the sixth mountain lion killed in Indian Valley since late January.
"The fifth one was killed in the Williams Valley area of Greenville in late February. To learn more and find safety tips, visit the DFG mountain lion information page at dfg.ca.gov/news/issues/lion .
"Heather Kingdon authored a guest post about this experience Thursday, March 15, on thebeefjar.com .
"Scroll down the page to see her story and pictures titled "Guest Post: Active Environmentalist." Heather wrote: "The few live goats that are left are locked in the barn where the mare and foals are housed. The bodies of the nine (9) dead are piled in one place, so the lion will come to a distinct area. A trick wire is placed on the top goat's carcass so when it is moved an alarm that the Tracker has, will go off. The waiting begins. At 10 p.m. the alarm is sounded. Our hound man gets his dogs and as he approaches the barn he see the lion emerge from the barn and leap over the 6'6" fence without touching, loping across the arena and heading toward the mountain. The hounds give chase and soon the lion is treed. It is huge. The biggest lion our tracker has ever seen in his many years. The lion is shot and falls, the wind is howling and the rain is here, coming down in sheets."
"Document the damage. Document the results. Document the loss. All are documented, all is legal. The depredation was a success; yet there is no celebration at the Walking G Ranch. The dead are counted and the living are being cared for by the young man, Paul, of 13 years of age who they belong to. The nannies that are alive have lost their young, the young that survived have lost their mothers. Each kid must be fed three times a day and the nannies milked, for they won't accept another's young at this point. Chores are a welcome distraction. The filling of water buckets, cleaning the stalls. Chickens to be let out. Horses fed."
Are you talking about the politicians or about that mountain lion that was killed about 1.5 miles from my house (Chicago Proper as in 1 mile from the lake as Michigan) a few years back?
I am looking forward to the day when the MDFW&P have to do a head count and mountain lions and wolves are eying them hungrily because everything else has been eaten up. : )
Sincerely,
Far behind enemy lines.
And Brian Kingdon and Van Probst were only doing what God intended for them to do.
See? Everybody's happy.
Except for maybe the family that lost their livestock.
And Brian Kingdon and Van Probst were only doing what God intended for them to do.
See? Everybody's happy.
Except for maybe the family that lost their livestock.
Is that documented somewhere? I'd love to show that to my CongressCritter. The idiots want the Grey Wolf back here in Illinois! Hello....wolves like easy victims - cute puppy dogs and toddlers....IDIOTS!!!!
About four years ago I was walking my dog around midnight about 5 miles south of Galena (Illinois) along the Mississippi River. A wolf or a mutant coyote ran like the speed of light away from me. It was huge and it was dark. I say it was a wolf because it was HUGE, as in GIANT as in NOT a large German Sheppard but maybe a GIANT German Sheppard....just saying. And no, I don't carry a gun yet.
Late last year a pack of coyotes were attacking a lady with two dogs in Lincoln Park which is where the rich dem voters live.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/pack-of-coyotes-surround-woman-dogs-in-lincoln-park/
In 2010 the Chicago Fire Department rescued a coyote (a caller thought it was a dog) on an ice float in the lake. I live in Zoo. : )
http://www.examiner.com/article/coyote-rescued-from-icy-lake-michigan-by-chicago-fire-department
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