Mountain lion wipes out farm's petting zoo (AZ)

Arizona Daily Star ^ | July 5, 2009 | Tim Steller

[mylife]

Sharps?

[jazusamo]

That’s a great idea, Fly. Thanks for the laugh. :-)

[Snurple]

yes.

[Snurple]

original.

[mylife]

Just before I left AZ, a little 5 year old girl came running into the house in Tucson..

“Mommy Mommy come quick!”

It was a cougar in the tree in the backyard

[Star Traveler]

The article said — They didn’t want to kill the mountain lion, and now they’re worried about restocking the little petting zoo before October, when kids arrive for pumpkin picking. They’re also worried about a backlash from their environmentally conscious customers.

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Well, I personally don’t like uselessly killing animals, but I emphasize the uselessly, when I consider those things. However, I would say that if they are worried about this in terms of their “environmentally conscious customers”, then they need to get rid of them as customers... LOL...

[jazusamo]

Unfortunately that’s happening more and more as lion numbers increase in some states, they’re completely protected in CA.

[jazusamo]

Well said...Their biggest worry should be the safety of visitors to the petting zoo. :-)

[hiredhand]

WHO in their right freaking mind is EVER "excited by the sight" of a wild mountain lion on their farm?! Are these people mentally deficient or something? They could be grieving their own dead kids instead of moaning about their poor kids having to bury their pets. As for their environmentally conscious customers... to hell with them.

We live on a small working farm and mainly raise dairy goats, sheep, and chickens. We're NEVER happy to see Coyotes and would certainly be just as unhappy (probably more so!) to see a mountain lion! We also have a larger piece of property about 20 minutes north in the adjacent county and between here and there people have a "Shoot, Shovel, and SHUT UP" attitude. We don't revel in, nor take any joy in killing critters. The last dog I shot was trying to fight our Pyrenees through the fence of one of our goat pastures and I figured if he was that persistent, then I'd just kill him. If I hadn't, the Pyrenees would have eventually gotten out and killed him anyway. I called the Sheriff's Dept afterwards because the dog had a collar and a tag, but turning it in was "optional"... so we "opted" to just bury the whole bloody mess in an adjacent field and stayed quiet about it. There was no hand wringing, no moral dilemma, no concern about what our environmentally conscious customers were going to think!...and believe you me, we have a LARGE customer base of those people!... and no loss of anything we own! The whole brief but loud incident resulted in somebody's aggressive, un-contained dog dying, and us wasting two .223 rounds and spending 40 minutes digging a hole and planting the mutt!

Dealing with the inner turmoil of what to do about a mountain lion at the farm is just too stupid to even ponder.

This whole article is a good illustration of why liberals simply can't come to terms with a correct and right response to evil in this world...which means being personally armed and prepared to use arms. They do supremely dumb things like analyze the psyche of a mountain lion before coming to the conclusion that any number of us would have come to in the first 10 seconds of seeing the thing in close proximity of our livestock!...which is that it simply has to die. The fact that they lost every single critter that they own (except for the geese) shows just how stupid they are.

Interestingly enough, they pass laws which are intended to force evil people to comply, but somehow realize (albeit a big late!) that the same is simply ineffective against mountain lions! When in fact, evil people no more comply with their desires than that mountain lion.

Liberals are simply retarded. There's just no other logical explanation.

[mylife]

Well said

[isom35]

maybe it was looking for Jack Bauer’s daughter Kim.

[Ditter]

What got me was he has lived there 40 years and it was the first one he had seen. He just hasn’t been looking.

[mylife]

42 mountain lions were killed as a result of their eating — or "depredating" — livestock. ">

Live stock are predators?

[mylife]

In Az, My Brother was wigged out because everyone in the backwoods carried a firearm.

“what do they need those for”? he protested.

I said “Jr.. you ever seen a Mountain lion in the wild?”

He said “No”

I said “well they have seen you”

[1forall]

Either evolution is correct and we’re at the top of the “natural selection” and “the strong survive” pyramid or creation is correct and God gave us dominion over the animals and we are duty bound to maintain order.

Either way, the eco crowd is wrong.

[george76]

‘It’s like living in a war zone’

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/185335

[Billthedrill]

Loew and his wife, Laurel, who run the all-natural, community-supported farm...

Could somebody please translate this into English for me? What could be more natural than a predator having his supper?

I don't want to sound callous but this one wasn't the cat's fault. They may call it a petting zoo but I call it bait.

[Ditter]

Farm/Ranch people have always carried guns, to protect the livestock or put a sick one down.

[mylife]

Leow is a whiny idiot. When I lived the WE patrolled the borders.

He whines to the Gov that something has to be done, then whines when they do.

[hiredhand]

I'm still just shaking my head over this. I read the article source to my daughter a moment ago. She's our primary herdsman here, and the whole notion of doing anything other than shooting predators like this on sight is just stupid beyond belief. :-)

Ah well... thank you for taking the time to read my little rant! :-)