On Aug 26, 2021, approximately 10:45 a.m., a 65-lb. mountain lion attacked the boy in his front yard, inflicting wounds to his head, neck and upper torso. The boy’s mother fended off the lion by striking it multiple times. The boy’s parents transported him to a hospital where he was treated for his injuries. He remains in the hospital in stable condition.
-Elmo
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Back in the '80s when they were first talking about outlawing mountain lion hunting, a news station interviewed a woman and my caption was her quote.
Before they put the ban in place, you very seldom if ever saw a lion unless you were hunting them. Now that they've lost their fear of humans, the fuckers are popping up all over the place, even in fairly large towns, eating cats and dogs and apparently future liberal voters as well.
I remember a bleeding heart back in the day talking about cows being intelligent and sensitive creatures. My father then told me about the intelligence of a cow. Sometimes when they stand up they will step on one of their tests when getting up. Their solution was to then stand right up and rip it off.
ReplyDeleteThe lions have learned that liberals are easy to eat because they have no spine.
ReplyDeleteAt 65# that was a very small one. Nothing like being attached by the equivalent of a paper shredder on meth.
ReplyDelete"The Taliban, what magnificent creatures".
ReplyDeleteYeah, democrats.
Read the book Beast In The Garden, it's about when mountain lions came to Boulder, CO. They followed deer down into town. The hippies loved it, until the deer, then pets, then people started disappearing.
ReplyDeleteI'm in SW Oregon, and the cougars are out of control. We lose a goat to one about every three years, despite fencing and livestock guardian dogs. The state dept of fish & wildlife used to have one trapper that covered our area, and the poor guy spent all day setting traps for cougars, and all night shooting the ones he caught. Liberals eliminated his job, now there's one trapper for the whole state.
ReplyDeleteIf the cougars are out of control, you shouldn't let young men go to those types of bars. Just saying.
DeleteIf liberals are a food, continue to enforce the ban. I agree, what magnificent creatures.
ReplyDeleteMountain Lions are no joke. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-10-me-lion10-story.html is a story from 2004 in Orange County. My recollection was that wildfires may have caused them to move into the area. Mountain Lions are apex predators, they actively stalk their prey. People can get got who are alone and unaware (fixated on a task, looking at a smart phone, earbuds in, otherwise distracted.
ReplyDeleteThey are seen at Camp Pendleton, even in close proximity to housing and people now and again. Seriously, they are a low probability (due to small numbers) extremely high risk threat. As such, they warrant serious attention and caution. Your pattern of life probably overlaps a Mountain Lions' more than anyone would be comfortable understanding, if you live in their range.
These things can take on full grown Mule Deer, and snap their necks.
Mountain lions can sprint to chase down prey over short distances, but they are better built for the ambush. They stalk prey quietly through trees, boulders or other covered areas. They move until they reach a striking distance of 30 feet or less, and leap on to their target's back with a suffocating neck bite. The impact could be enough to break the prey's neck or the mountain lion will deliver the killer bite. Much more at the link below, impressive animals that deserve great respect for their ability and desire to kill prey (meaning: stay the hell away from them!)
"Mountain lions drag their prey more than 1,000 feet from the kill site before enjoying their meal. They then hide the carcass with branches and leaves and will return to feed several times." - https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/mountain-lion.htm
Here is the California specific graphic: https://s.hdnux.com/photos/10/34/35/2213729/5/628x471.jpg
"Oh, honey! A mountain lion!
ReplyDeleteYou've gotta get a pic with me and that magnificent creature!
Here, kitty kitty."
We've lived here about fifteen years. In that time, a cougar killed my stepdaughter's horse, after a barn busting battle with nobody else home. SIL saw a cougar grapple with a deer in the ditch alongside the road. I've killed two cougars in our back yard, the third got away before I could respond. The neighbor up the road got him instead. They always show up in early March, for some reason.
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Probably because females are just coming out of their dens after nursing and weaning kittens.
DeleteSomebody ought to live trap about ten of them not feed them for a week or so and turn them those loose where the homeless are camped out.
ReplyDeleteHere in NM some numnuts called in to morning radio to opine that mountain lion attacks were rare
ReplyDeleteThis after a poor soul was attacked, killed, and lunched on
Next caller stated ... "incidents seem rare because piles of mountain lion poo don't call in to report attacks"
I've found critters the will eat or kill you are magnificent. Either alive or dead.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can start a "go fund me" account for the cat.....
ReplyDeleteDuring my first tour at Moffett Field, ('81-'84) a cat got a female jogger, and that's exactly what the good citizens of Santa Clara County did.
DeleteThere are two misfortunes in life: not getting what you want and getting what you want.
ReplyDeleteThey're getting it good and hard.
Just like I suspected all along. Liberals do in fact taste like chicken. They pair well with the ratatoule borscht favored by upscale "White meat" Karens.
ReplyDeleteEvery October our sportsman club would host a BBQ. Not unheard of was mountain lions seen in the area. One year a black bear wandered onto the grounds.
DeletePerhaps my favorite story of bears and idiot humans is when, on the last day of a 10 day hike, I went up to Glacier Point in Yosemite. A passle of folks had gathered circled 'round a cub. I cautioned, Watch out for momma. I was poo-poohed away. Presently momma did show up and boy you never seen folks scatter. Many only moved because they saw others moving. They had had their backs to momma and didn't know anything other than they need to start running. Therefore, some of them ran straight at momma before veering off with great haste.
One morning I delivered my wife to work before I went on to my work. We observed a momma and two cubs not 75 yards from us while downtown in that small CA city. I had seen predators in town before but this was new, momma was stalking us.
ReplyDeleteI used to mountainbike a lot. Of course hiking which I still do. Still in the field, I was coming back from tracking wild animals - which I do more often since I don't hunt as much. A he and she (obviously by their dress and age, college students new to the area) were riding their bikes. I told them to not go that way 'cause they be lions thataway. They scoffed. Then he said, we would see them coming. SMH
A week or so later I heard that two bikers had been attacked. The she was taken down and had died. The he was quoted as saying they were attacked from behind, he never saw it coming. I figure from the area where it happened that they were the two I had spoken to.
I recall a tug-o-war between a lion and a woman in south Orange County maybe twenty years ago. The woman's friend was the rope. Nothing's happened in the intervening time to make it safer. A lot has happened making people stupider.
ReplyDeleteThe amusing thing is when two priorities conflict. Last I heard the desert big horn sheep were in serious decline caused, in part, by increased predation by mountain lions, the number one cause of sheep deaths. I believe there was a call for a study to fix the problem.
And the study will conclude that increasing populations of Mountain Lions have absolutely nothing to do with declining populations of Big Horn Sheep. The reason for the decline will be attributed to the increase in temperatures in the home range of the sheep due to Climate Change.
DeleteGarbage in, garbage out. And the garbage is directed by the Leftist activists that have run the Resources Agency, a wholly owned subsidiary of California state government, for decades.
A dozen years ago near the California coast resort town of Santa Cruz, a gal coming home at night found a cougar in her carport.
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She chased it off... with a broom.
I prefer chasing it off with a shotgun, but that is just me.
Most people have no clue as to how fast they can move. Wife had a friend who had raised a Fl panther(smaller then the typical western couger prob 80#) that he had raised. Guy had a large yard 'bout 150' wide with a raised walkway the whole length. So wife goes out to smoke a ciggie on the walk. The cat's at one end and she's in the middle. She came back in after and said in the time it took her to light the cig, the cat came down the deck and grabbed her leg, then sat back and looked at her like it was laughing
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