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Wednesday, January 03, 2024

"But they're such magnificent creatures!"

LOOMIS — Neighbors in one Northern California community are on edge after several attacks on livestock from a mountain lion. One 8-acre property has had the cat return several times, killing a few goats.

Winter Holloway, who owns property in the Placer County town of Loomis, said her goats are part of the family.

Holloway showed CBS13 where she found mountain lion tracks on her property. She said the conditions of the goat carcasses were a sure sign of a mountain lion.

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The caption comes from a TV news interview from the late 1980s when they first proposed the ban on hunting mountain lions in California. That one line was all the San Francisco woman had to offer.

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    1. I second that. In fact, that's what the game warden told my uncle to do about it. 'course, that was in the 90's in Montana. While it's *possible* a California game warden would be aware enough of how stupidly unworkable the laws are to say that, it's considerably less likely.

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    2. That's exactly what the old school California Wardens would tell you to do. My retired warden friend suggested using 12 gauge buckshot. But they're all retiring and being replaced by the new school California 'Conservation Officers', who have literally grown up being educated (indoctrinated) in the new school and have been trained at an academy run by the current California system dominated by Leftist thought.

      Wolves, Lions and Bears good, ranchers and their methane emitting cattle bad.

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  2. It's just another variety of pussy that'll kill you.

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  3. "But they're such magnificent creatures!"
    Yes, some democrats are, but they're dangerous and should be locked up.

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  4. I've heard mountain lion meat is tasty.

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  5. Yet, these same people who delight in the mountain lion, a potentially dangerous animal, will despise the rattlesnake, another potentially dangerous animal.

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  6. Bait the carcass with poison.

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  7. Of course you may need to toss any tracking collars on top of an east bound semi. The report of lion #232 being in Winnemucca headed east at 75 mph could give someone quite the shock.

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  8. do deploying Donkeys help keep the M
    Lions away? We use the in FL to keep the Coyotes out

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