Posted on 02/07/2012 3:20:34 PM PST by jazusamo
My grand kids and I have been followed a few times (prints in the mud) but you never see them till they want you to.
A friend of mine was bow hunting in Idaho some years back moving slow. He said he didn’t actually hear anything just had an eerie feeling and looked behind him to see a cougar some 8 or 10 yards away stalking him.
Fortunately he had a sidearm and fired a round that that spooked the cat.
Poor kid is going to have to undergo post rabies exposure vaccinations also.
I was stalked by two lions, a female and her nearly full grown cub a few years back. They came within seven feet of me when I scared them away by slamming a metal dumpster lid down very hard. I stay armed now.
That is what gets you, you never see them till its to late. You need to walk tall and keep your kids close in M lion country. I never let my grand kids run “up ahead” when we are out walking. The cats are just doing what they do it’s up to us to make sure they do not have the opportunity.
Yes he is. I don’t know if they’re as bad as they used to be, do you?
Thanks to Inyo-Mono for pointing me to this thread
Wow, can’t believe people weren’t warned after the first attack.
Agreed Girl, that just blows me away.
Can't wait for barry’s “health committee” to kick in!
I’ll bet his parents are glad they allow their 6 year old to carry a knife.....
Lucky it wasn’t a school zone or the kid would have to be arrested.
I like the kind of lion attacks you saw in “Second Hand Lions” (which I watched on TV earlier this week).
I’ll bet his parents are glad they allow their 6 year old to carry a knife.....
Lucky it wasn’t a school zone or the kid would have to be arrested.
It was the Dad, Jason, that was carrying the knife and stabbed the cat but they may just let their boy carry a knife when outdoors from now on.
Second Hand Lions was one the the better movies made in the last decade. I thought it was great and that attack was fabulous. :-)
First time I ever *really* saw the Milky-way was out in the Big Bend. Beautiful country! The only critter we saw was a raccoon that visited the camp each night and got his fill of crackers and Lone Star.
I was only at Big Bend once and that was many years ago but have been out in the middle of nowhere many many of times, there’s nothing else that compares to it in my view.
Hell, the raccoon wasn’t coming for the crackers, he was coming back for the Lone Star. LOL!
Up by the lodge? Holy Guacamole!
Been in that park many times, but that area up there in The Basin is the most heavily trafficked part of the mountains. I could kinda understand big kitties back in the mountains away from everybody, but that is the main campground.
Scary.
And here is a warning sign at the entrance to the Chisos Mountains. Beautiful place.
The sheer perfidy of ParcPersons is astounding. Rather than admit a child had been attacked at the lodge, those ParcPersons were going to NOT INFORM the public about a clear and present danger to human health and safety.
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