Posted on 02/05/2017 9:54:34 PM PST by beaversmom
A mountain lion and her cub were caught Friday and Saturday near Miller Middle School. The mountain lion had killed deer on school grounds, prompting a warning to parents. The animals were relocated near the Utah line.
Wildlife officials have captured a mountain lion suspected of killing deer at Miller Middle School in Durango.
The mountain lion was caught Saturday and her cub was captured Friday night, said Joe Lewandowski, spokesman with Colorado Parks and Wildlife in Durango.
Both were driven west and released near the Utah line in “good mountain lion habitat,” Lewandowski said.
School Principal Robert Nuhn warned parents of mountain lion activity last week, saying a deer carcass had been found on school grounds. He asked parents to talk to their children about the situation, especially if they walk to and from school during the early hours or late after school for events.
The Durango Police Department was doing extra patrols early in the morning as a safety precaution, and the school increased supervision of students during the lunch hour.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has fielded calls about a mountain lion in the Junction Creek area for almost a year, Lewandowski said. It let the animal coexist until last week, when the deer carcass was found on school grounds and another one was found in a nearby neighborhood, he said.
“We can coexist with wildlife, but in this case we thought it was better for the animals and really for the neighborhood to have them move along,” he said.
Both animals were in good shape, he said.
Mountain lion cubs generally stay with their mothers about a year to learn how to hunt
Lewandowski reminded residents not to put out food for deer, raccoons or turkeys. Doing so lures those animals into populated areas, which in turn lures mountain lions.
“If anyone has concerns about that with a neighbor, they can call us, and we can go talk to them,” he said.
If residents encounter mountain lions, they should make themselves look bigger by raising their arms and anything they have with them, including a mountain bike. They should slowly back away from the animal, without running.
shane@durangoherald.com
Relocated? Section 8? :)
They are not so accommodating in Nebraska:
Mountain lion euthanized after being found on front porch of Scottsbluff home
http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/mountain-lion-euthanized-after-being-found-on-front-porch-of/article_7c8a9372-e98f-11e6-ae37-aba01a41a585.html
“We can coexist with wildlife”
Yeah, you and Timothy Treadwell.
I think there’s a difference between the comment and singing to bears in Alaska.
Durango is not that far fro the Utah border, a lion can walk back to Durango if it wanted to easily. Also, These lions are territorial. If they put the lion and cub into another lion’s territory, the lion who marked that territory will try to kill them.
GOOD LORD!!!
You know I’m a city boy so I wouldn’t know what to do or if there is a reason to euthanize.
Seems harsh.
Yeah, even though I’m out West, and I do see lots of wildlife around the area, I’m a suburban girl. I personally don’t like to hear about the kitties being killed, but who knows?
I’m hoping they figured it out, and the kitties will figure it out, too.
Yeah, I know nothing about the subject of those kinds of animals coming into neighborhoods. We get deer rarely and turkeys sometimes on Staten Island lol
And I’m not PETA activist, but I like animals a lot and don’t like to see them suffer. Though i believe at least euthanasia is painless.
We dont have kids so every time my cat coughs my wife wants to ttake him to the emergency room lol
I NEVER thought that would be me!!
But life happens and you roll with the punches!
I’ve seen you mention about your kitty before. :) I think it’s great when people love and appreciate animals. Most Muslims, not all, don’t seem to have much of that in them...that’s one big indicator to me that something is seriously wrong there.
Can they put out liberals?
First signs of a serial killer are torturing animals.
My son lived in the woods with a very long “driveway’.
Twice the school bus driver saw a cougar in their woods.
Very pregnant wife didn’t have a car to pick the kids up so she sent large hound out to meet the kids.
Some time later, a dead cougar was found on the school’s cross-country trail.
“I think there’s a difference between the comment and singing to bears in Alaska.”
Same mindset, same worldview.
Our forefathers had a reason for driving large predators away from human habitation. Common sense, I think they called it.
“Some time later, a dead cougar was found on the school’s cross-country trail.”
What killed it?
At least they didn’t kill the mountain lion.
Better than the F&G Tucson folks who re-introduced bighorn sheep to the local mountains and then killed the poor mountain lions that used them as lunch...
“I personally don’t like to hear about the kitties being killed, but who knows?”
Back in the late 1980s or early 1990s, a wife and mother was killed by a cougar while jogging.
The animal rights whackos jumped to set up a fund for the poor predator’s cubs, but nobody seemed to give a rat’s patoot for the human orphans.
Rush Limbaugh got a fund set up for them, but the way the kids were initially ignored was enough to make you spit.
I’m really hoping to get a tag for a mountain lion.
If I can get two, I can make a really nice coat.
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