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Posted on 10/23/2008 4:05:18 AM PDT by marktwain
It was self defense. That’s what game and fish officials determined after a hunter shot a mountain lion north of Cokeville earlier this month. Adam Lancaster of Afton told the Wyoming game warden that he and his father were dressing out a buck mule deer they had killed when the lion moved in. Game and Fish officials say the lion was a sub-adult female apparently attracted by the smell of fresh meat – but they quickly add that such aggressive behavior toward humans is extremely rare. Lancaster told the warden the incident was over in seconds. The hunters left the lion carcass at the kill site and immediately contacted Game and Fish, which aided in quickly settling the incident as self-defense.
I thought it was the cat who killed the humans in self defense.
Please do ping this over to Slings and Arrows, who handles all things cat related. =^..^=
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I have to be honest, I grew up in Michigan so there were no big cats to worry about when out hunting.
When I went elk hunting in Montana one year I was sitting against a tree just at dusk when a mountain lion let lose with a scream, all I could tell was it was really close and somewhere behind me.
Suddenly that whole food chain thing got a lot more interesting...
That one looks like a jackamount.
Ahwww, couldn’t they have just thrown it a bone?
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