Posted on 03/03/2008 11:42:13 AM PST by faq
Same here in Daly City, California.
The cat had a kill in its mouth.
I think the hapless fisherman was walking right towards the den when the mother cat showed up with lunch for its kits.
This also explained why the cat attacked and then just walked away. It wanted to return to its den, and then move its kits far away. If they were already eating meat, they would be able to walk without being carried.
1. This cougar attack was apparently in an area where these cats are hunted (though I don’t doubt that decrease in hunting and population encroachment makes them more dangerous)
2. The $64 question is whether this animal was rabid. If so, then this guy has more than cuts and scrapes to worry about. I don’t know if cougars are as prone to rabies as small carnivores like skunks and racoons (a real problem in my area).
Actually, there was one about 10 years ago.
“Mountain lions only attack humans if they are very sick or injured and can’t get any other prey”
Youre joking, right?
Read the book “Beast in the Garden”. It’s about Mountain lions attacking people in Colorado. The lions were not sick...they had just gotten use to having people around and were not afraid of them as they should have been. It’s a great book. I highly recommend it!
I wonder what poor Kim is going to do next? I’m riveted to the edge of my chair...
Ten years ago they were extremely rare. Now they are all over the place and not just in the Black Hills. I sometimes wonder if someone raised and released a bunch, but that is just my own personal theory.
LOL
Mountain lions sightings do occur every now and then in Granada Hills and Northridge. I remember back in the 1970s one was shot in a neighbor's backyard. I know there were a few incidents in the 80s as well, but I've been gone since 95. Certainly the areas below the San Gabriel Mountains as well as huge sections of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties still have lots of problem encounters.
Nahh. It wasn’t a polar bear looking for an ice skating rink.
Sounds like not a real “attack”. Small consolation to the guy who was jumped.
A real “attacK’ is an attempt to kill and eat a human as a prey source. Increasingly common but the victims are usually children, women or small men.
Is this like “Bears $#!t in woods”?
Don’t be so sure about the sightings around Philly. There have been sightings in the area and in Delaware. Probably a released pet, but sightings all the same.
So what? What sympathy can be wasted on a vicious man hunting carnivore because it may not be in the pink of health? None.
That bear ever pass all the sleighbells?
M-lion btw. Metro KC and MCI airport on I-29 ran over
about 4yrs ago. Think it was confirmed ‘wild’.
M-lion reported by locals in central Mo. near Jeff City but was disputed by conservation dept until found dead on state highway.
also, black bear in south central Mo. for past few years and now NORTH of Mo. river last year.
It doesn't say what time of day it was but it wouldn't be surprising if it was late afternoon. Lions hunt the edges of woods and use the cover of twilight shadows. A local man was run up a tree by a mountain lion under just those circumstances a few years ago.
Oh, that's right.
Never did catch that thing did they?
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