Posted on 05/20/2008 11:21:24 AM PDT by george76
A mountain lion stirred up some excitement near Flatiron Elementary School...
The 138-pound cat was shot once with a tranquilizer gun but then bolted ...
At 10:30 a.m., the cat was shot with another tranquilizer dart ...
Agents carried the cat to ...an Open Space park in west Boulder where it was released.
Wildlife officers said the cat is about 2-years-old and known in the neighborhood. The same mountain lion was in the same neighborhood last week. In that incident, the mountain lion was tranquilized, but managed to run away.
The cat also appears to have a high tolerance for tranquilizers.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
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The cat will be back tomorrow ?
Job security for the DOW.
For his daily fix.
The cat also appears to have a high tolerance for tranquilizers.....TE you got these cats by you?
Sort of like Richard Pryors bit about the Wildabeast on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom who kept coming back begging to be shot with "that gun" again.
Lots of deer = lots of cats.
In the still images, he looked like he had a collar
One’s fondness for large predators varies proportionally with distance. Until they start releasing these animals on the steps of the State Capitol, the law is always going to hamstring efforts to control them.
“if he comes back, we will have to decide if anything else needs to be done with him,” said Jennifer Churchill, spokeswoman for the Division of Wildlife.
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/may/20/lion-tranquilized-second-time-week/
I’m guessing that if they took the trouble to tranquilized him, that they also put a tracking collar on him?
Hope they can relocate him so that he doesn’t kill a child. Wondering who would be held responsible if that happened?
I mean in the images of the cat running on the road...
Well, you know he can’t be dangerous, because even the large predators in Boulder are vegans. His only social slight is that he wears fur.
Ok, sorry, but seriously —
If this animal is “known”.. they have a problem on their hands. Also - catch and release trapping, while a nice warm & fuzzy notion, doesn’t work with large predators who are desensitized to humans.
And, releasing it in a local open space is silly, these animals have HUGE roaming territories.
He will keep coming back ‘til something bad happens.
The bunny-huggers whine that we’re diminishing the wildlife’s environment and cutting off their natural food sources - BUT..
The truth is that the human environment is a much more appealing one than their natural one. Easy pickings via garbage, pets, and other attractions. So, all things being relative, our environment has become theirs by preference. Why go hunt when you can go to the corner convenience store?
Look at the huge increase in coyote attacks on pets and humans from coast to coast. Fifteen years ago I gave press interviews telling people not to panic, that coyotes were an opportunistic nuisance at best, and to keep their garbage cans in garage. Now it’s a different, more damgerous game. They are also notoriously hard to live-trap.
Wild animals adapt, and dangerously confident ones should be euthanized before a tragedy, not as a result of one.
They also practice "catch and release" with criminals and illegal aliens
“Good grief! The mountain lion has been there before but he is just released to a nearby open space????? What is wrong with hauling him off to some location far away from civilization?”
Whats wrong with bustin a cap in his a$$?
The lion must adicted to : benzodiazepines, among which are diazepam (Valium), chlordiazepoxide (Librium), and alprazolam (Xanax)...?
That would make an excellent civil disobedience lolcat.
}:-)4
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