[JeepInMazar]

It’s interesting how the thought of shooting the mountain lion doesn’t seem to occur as a viable option to these libs.

[jazusamo]

Mountain lion Ping!

[TexasCajun]

Here kitty-kitty! ...buffet is open.

[mylife]

When I lived out there ECO types forced the reintroduction of the Mexican Grey Wolf.

Within 6 months the pack had been killed of for predation.

Sure they are pretty to look at but they are a problem to live with.

[TheZMan]

Mountain lion dead. *check*
Kids alive. *check*
Remaining livestock spared. *check*

I think I found the winner here.

[Ancient Drive]

gentle mother nature thinning out the weaker blood lines.

[LongElegantLegs]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! When the ‘environmentally conscious’ come up against nature, nature always loses.

I notice that there was no suggestion of lion overpopulation as an explanation for the cat's behavior...

[Dallas59]

When ya gotta eat.....ya gotta eat....I guess the Lion wasn’t full of Hope and Change....

[Flycatcher]

They're also worried about a backlash from their environmentally conscious customers.

Here's a win/win idea: Create a pen for local mountain lions and let the eco-kooks in to pet them. Then let the hilarity ensue!

Thanks for the ping, Jaz!

[Snurple]

Just what the doctor ordered for pesky varmints like a ML. .5o Sharps...

[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...

[isom35]

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

[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.

[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.

[Mogollon]

Yep. A mountain lion wiped out a Javalina herd that used to come onto my brothers land in SE Arizona this past year.

[familyop]

"Many human factors could have contributed to the lion's settling in at the farm, too. Urbanization, even in semi-rural areas like the river valley of Santa Cruz County, drives some animals out of their habitat."

[*Sob!* *Boohoo!*] I've lived in two large areas, where there were over 60,000 people living over 100 years ago (each area) but very few people now.

* The mountain lion, bear and other predator populations are growing in central and northern Colorado, because people are not hunting them much. And the weather has been getting wetter for several years.

* Mountain lions and bears hunt and kill whatever presents itself and appears to be easily killed. Mountain lions are more capable of making quick kills than bears. Mountain lions are not often seen, while they are stalking prey. That's because mountain lions don't like to be seen while stalking prey. ;-) They tend to do their hunting, when it's dark outside.

* Mountain lions like to do most of their killing after dark. So do bears (mostly sundown to midnight or so). Black bears look for targets of easy opportunity--mostly plant matter. But they will kill any easy prey that they see, and will try kill just about anything, when they're hungry enough.

* Most people on the Range avoid going outside their homes after dark. ...the most indoor people that I've ever seen. Very few people up here go for walks. They drive...a lot, eat a lot, watch a lot of television and speak of their spiritual affiliations with animals. Obviously, methamphetamine is not an effective weight loss remedy. ;-)

* Mention to one of the freaks that you have much American Indian ancestry, and they will invariably tell you that they are Indians. [Fritz und Heidi Indians, maybe.]

* Mountain lions and bears on your properties up here are most often only passing through. They learned to avoid people a long time ago. That could change, if animal-worshiping weirdos continue to overpopulate. Animal-worshiping weirdos most often express desires for animals to eat people, because they like to antagonize others. Many of them are on drugs, very sedentary and inclined toward driving.

We couldn't kill all of any species of predators, if we tried. They are nocturnal/semi-nocturnal and very good at hiding. Mountain lions and bears are not buffalo. [I refuse to speak in trendy, city-girl terms like "bison" and "pronghorn."]

[dfwgator]

One of those “Circle of Life” kind of things.

[wazoo1031]

I’m an animal lover, and yes, this is awful but the headline had me laughing my ass off! Predators are meat eaters and they hunt...a petting zoo is a just a buffet to a big cat...Welcome to the food chain, folks!

[Publius6961]

At first Stewart Loew was excited by the sight: a mountain lion on the family's farm near Amado.

This genius is too dumb to run anything more complicated than a petting zoo.

What is is about the concept of predator and prey that is beyond the comprehension of a second-grader?

Stewart thought maybe the mountain lion was using food stamps? Hydrogen and stupidity; the most abundant things in the universe.

[RichInOC]

You see a petting zoo. Kitty sees a buffet.

No! Bad kitty!