Posted on 09/08/2014 11:59:41 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Authorities were searching for a mountain lion that attacked a 6-year-old boy on a hiking trail near Cupertino on Sunday afternoon.
Hiking trails were closed after the agency received reports around 1 p.m. that the child was attacked about 2 miles from the Picchetti Winery at 13100 Montebello Road, said Sgt. Kurtis Stenderup, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. The boy, who was not identified, did not have life-threatening injuries.
The boy was attacked "in an aggressive manner," then dragged through brush before family members came to his aid and fought off the mountain lion, said a game warden for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Exactly! I never went into the mountains in Colorado without being armed.
The drought is making more animals come out looking for food and water.
My mom’s house has coyotes and a bobcat lurking nearby.
Used to just be deer.
The cat’s not at fault here, but the Rats are.
Mr. GG2 who is originally from CA used to be a govt bounty hunter. He had to track down and shoot one mountain lion who would come down every day and sit on a hill watching a rancher’s kids play. When the population gets too high you have problems. Same deal with coyotes and coy dogs. But the wacko enviros and animal rights people have no clue.
When your in lion and bear country not only are you not at the top of the food chain, you’re one of the slowest critters there.
If only there was some sort of tool Kaliphornians were allowed to carry.
Besides the walking out armed posts, yours is about the only informed, sane and rational one...
Here in SoCal, a mountain lion was found and captured in my town, high desert area some 20+ miles from the forested mountains.
I talked to an oldtimer about it and he couldn’t remember this ever being the case.
That’s how desperate they’re getting...
I’m expecting rattlesnakes over there any day now
I could just be paranoid though
If my 13 y/ o daughter(small for her age)visits grandma I tell her to stay very close to the house. Recently there was a cat big enough to jump on the roof of a shed in the backyard. I am hoping it wasn’t a mountain lion.
“Now the California hypocrite animal lovers will track the mountain lion down and kill it.
For what? ..being a mountain lion.”
So are we to assume you do not kill mice, rats, fleas, flies, viruses, bacteria, because, after all, they are just being mice, rats, fleas, flies, viruses, bacteria?
This is a heavily populated area, but the mountain lions - which had been nearly driven out of the area - are back because hunting was banned and the nutcase PETA types felt that the land belonged to the puddy tats.
It doesn’t. Unless we follow the greenies and turn it over to them.
Coyotes are coming down the mountains to my neighborhood too,,, eating kittys I hear..
Flies, same thing. outside is theirs, inside is mine.
Viruses & Bacteria is more like a sharing thing till they find a better home.
But you do intrude on mice and rats homes as well as on lion or other predators homes. They certainly inhabited the area before you. Do not say you live in the city as the city was once habitat for predators and still is, depending how you define predator. You simply have the fortune of someone else having largely gotten rid of the problem for you. Do you kill inside rats and mice and flies? They certainly cannot differentiate between inside and outside. All is their habitat and they are simply being flies and mice.
I know a few Buddhists who do not kill fleas, flies, mice, rats, even spiders.
I have to admit that if the rat is big enough for the BBQ. ...it's supper! hehe
Kaliphornians are allowed to carry kneepads for use when interacting with Public Servants and Revenue officers.
I read of quite a few incident where hikers came across woodland beasts of either the four foot or two foot variety with sometimes fatal consequences. In WA we have federal parks right in the middle of state parks - you can carry in a state park not a federal one. I’m a scofflaw.
Not paranoid at all...the predators will go where their food is.
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