A mountain lion checks out this patio near
North Swan Road and East Skyline Drive just
after dawn; the resident bagged this close-up.
Predator ping!
Well, that's what I tell my Sierra club buddies, anyway.
The cat's thinking: “How nice, entertainment before dinner!”
I’m surprised no one has said yet this reminds him of his ex wife.
The official Fish & Game party line. If it is true that "they're really not a problem for people," then why this:
Game and Fish officials posted signs there warning hikers to be alert due to recent lion activity, Ostergaard said.
I lived in Oracle, off Cody Loop Road with no one behind my house to the top of the Catalinas. I sunk an old bath tub in the back yard and filled it with coarse gravel and water. All kinds of critters came into my yard to water including bobcats, quail, coyotes, javalina, cotamundies, etc. Lots of fun.
I call that a taxidermist target of opportunity ... wow he'd lok good as a rug.
I went to let my two miniature poodles out before bed on Friday, March 28, 2008, and was completely shocked at what was in my back yard. I always go out in the yard stomping, making noise, to scare off the “usual” critters; rabbits, raccoons, possums, and particularly skunks, before I let the dogs out.
Friday night, around 9:00 pm, we didn’t have our outside lights on, as we had not been outside since dusk. I opened the garage service door while flipping the switch for the outside lights and there standing by the bird feeder pole in my yard were what I believe to be two, one “very large”, and one smaller, cougars.
The size of the one evoked a “you have to be ******** kidding me” right out of my mouth. They both turned their big round heads and glowing eyes at me for a split second and immediately, almost liquidly, ran the twelve feet to a four foot picket fence and were over it like it wasn’t even there.
Now I’m completely on edge going out with the dogs in the early morning and at night. I have taken to doing a complete search of the yard, trees, rooftop, etc. before I let my dogs out. We live less than a mile from Klein Creek Forest Preserve and the Prairie Path is right down the block. We have had deer and foxes come through our yard from time to time, but this was certainly unexpected and extremely unnerving.
To quantify the sizes: the smaller one looked between 30-40 pounds, 20” shoulder height, the very large one looked pretty beefy in the rear end, and it’s shoulder height around 30”. I only remember the coloring of the big one, it appeared flat greyish.
I don’t know if I should have called the sheriff, they probably would not have come out, and what would they do, anyway.
ya know, I’m curious, Am I the only person that carries a little 9mm with me everywhere in the woods/trails? yes, a .357 would be better, but the 9 fits in my pocket. I bet that if I shot the cat from 15-20 yds, it would run and die. Enough people do this, and they will learn to be afraid of folks.
“That’s what concerned me the most — that it wasn’t afraid of people. It acted more interested in me than scared.”
Big cats that are not hunted by man DON’T fear man. Why should they?