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  • Mountain lion tranquilized after killing dog in Boulder

    03/31/2009 7:46:16 AM PDT · by george76 · 54 replies · 1,462+ views
    Daily Camera ^ | March 30, 2009 | Amy Bounds
    A mountain lion was tranquilized and relocated by the state Division of Wildlife after killing a small dog in Boulder's Highland Park ... The lion killed a "white, fluffy dog" ... Division of Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said the lion, a 10-month-old male, was moved to a remote location. She said the lion had previously been tagged ... On Sunday, part of a Chautauqua Park trail was closed after hikers spotted a mountain lion in the trees...
  • Bad Ass

    03/16/2009 5:21:07 AM PDT · by CholeraJoe · 43 replies · 2,315+ views
    Email | Unknown
    A couple from Montana were riding the range, he with his rifle and she (fortunately) with her camera. Their dogs always followed them, but on this occasion, a Mountain Lion decided he wanted to stalk the dogs (you'll see the dogs in the background watching). Very, very bad decision. The hunter got off the mule with his rifle and decided to shoot in the air to scare away the lion, but before he could get off a shot, the lion charged in and decided he wanted a piece of those dogs. With that, the mule took off and decided HE...
  • No new sign of mountain lion [WI]

    03/13/2009 3:24:31 PM PDT · by SJackson · 17 replies · 789+ views
    Country Today ^ | 3-19-09
    SPOONER (AP) - There's been no sign of the mountain lion that game managers in northwestern Wisconsin tried to capture and collar last week. The mountain lion was photographed in a tree in the area of Washburn and Burnett counties west of Spooner before it crawled down and ran away. Jim Bishop of the state Department of Natural Resources said the animal is believed to be alive but may have left the area, or even headed to Minnesota. DNR personnel used some fresh snow to search for signs of the big cat on March 11. But wildlife biologist supervisor Ken...
  • More lion sightings in north Boulder

    01/06/2009 10:02:25 PM PST · by george76 · 33 replies · 1,366+ views
    Daily Camera ^ | January 6, 2009 | Vanessa Miller
    Near a northwest Boulder home early Tuesday, wildlife officers fired non-lethal bean bags at an adult mountain lion that was feeding on a deer carcass -- adding to the growing list of sightings and animal attacks in the neighborhood in recent weeks. A woman had her Jack Russell terrier taken by a lion Dec. 24 outside her home ... residents down the road have reported a family of lions drinking at their backyard pond; and Colorado Division of Wildlife officers have fielded several reports of sightings in the neighborhood. Tuesday, they found two animal carcasses within a few blocks. "People...
  • Mountain lion snatches Boulder terrier

    12/29/2008 5:54:20 PM PST · by george76 · 28 replies · 2,475+ views
    daily camera ^ | December 29, 2008 | Vanessa Miller
    Colorado Division of Wildlife officers are searching the Boulder area for a mountain lion that grabbed a couple's Jack Russell Terrier late Christmas Eve outside their home ... The owner had stepped outside with the small dog about 11 p.m. to take some garbage to the alley and told wildlife officers that she "got a creepy feeling," division spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said. The woman ran back indoors, Churchill said, and accidentally left her dog outside. When the woman realized her pet wasn't with her, she got in her car, where she felt safer, and drove back into the alley with...
  • Lucky Little Dog

    12/07/2008 6:14:06 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 14 replies · 839+ views
    WildObs ^ | 10-15-2008 | vvila
    After letting their small dog out at 4 A.M. for a quick bathroom request, neighbors found their small dog had been attacked by a mountain lion or fox, but had escaped and managed to return to their back door. The dog required over 40 stitches but survived and no one could figure out how until a day or two later when the carcass of a fox was found a few hundred feet further back from the house. The fox had obviously been the meal of a mountain lion. The scenario then became clear. The fox had the dog until the...
  • Mountain lion suspected in attack on family's dogs

    11/22/2008 12:26:04 PM PST · by george76 · 26 replies · 944+ views
    Freedom Communications ^ | November 21, 2008 | BEATRIZ E. VALENZUELA
    When Scott Nobles returned home from tending to a sick horse, he and his fiancée were shocked to find one of the couple’s dogs badly hurt and bleeding, and the other dead. “I called the cops because I thought someone had shot my dog in the head, that’s how bad the damage was,” said Nobles, a deputy with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Apple Valley station. He soon learned it was not a human that attacked his dogs. The attack took place... inside the couple’s back yard. “We heard the puppies whining and crying, but we couldn’t find the other...
  • Lion kills pet dog in Village ( Sedona, Arizonia )

    11/09/2008 9:30:17 AM PST · by george76 · 35 replies · 1,017+ views
    Larson Newspapers ^ | 31-10-2008 | Trista Steers
    Early last week a mountain lion snatched a family’s dog from their yard and killed it...in the Village of Oak Creek. The dog, approximately 12 pounds, was in the yard with the family’s other two dogs when the mountain lion attacked... Arizona Game and Fish Spokesman Zenon Mocarski said a game warden was called to the scene and determined the attacking animal was in fact a mountain lion. “It’s pretty easy to distinguish between a mountain lion and a coyote,” ... Since the attack... neighbor came over and told her to keep her children inside because the mountain lion was...
  • Mountain lion killed in self defense

    10/23/2008 4:05:18 AM PDT · by marktwain · 6 replies · 776+ views
    Jackson Hole Radio ^ | 22 October, 2008 | Tom Ninnemann
    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...
  • Plague kills 37-year-old man in Arizona

    10/21/2008 1:43:56 PM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies · 2,000+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 21, 2008
    One day last October, Eric York lugged the carcass of an adult mountain lion from his truck and laid it carefully on a tarp on the floor of his garage. The female mountain lion had a bloody nose, but her hide bore no other signs of trauma. York, a biologist at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, found the big cat lying motionless near the canyon’s South Rim. He was determined to learn why she died. Because the park lacks a forensics lab, he did the postmortem in his garage, in a village of about 2,000 park employees. Epidemic experts...
  • Development threatens mountain lions (CA)

    07/20/2008 1:02:04 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 28 replies · 115+ views
    MercuryNews.com ^ | July 19, 2008 | Julia Scott
    A mountain lion is chased up a tree in downtown Palo Alto. Another one is shot after mauling a Chihuahua at a Watsonville mobile home park. In Los Gatos, a lion hits a car while trying to cross Summit Road. Peninsula and Silicon Valley residents rarely ponder the lives of mountain lions trying to survive in the Santa Cruz Mountains. But urban development — the razing of habitat for homes, roads and parking lots — is the chief obstacle the wild cats face every day as they hunt for deer and fulfill their instinct to roam hundreds of miles, looking...
  • Tracker hunts Palo Alto mountain lion after attack (CA)

    07/14/2008 9:06:38 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 31 replies · 225+ views
    SF Chronicle ^ | July 13, 2008 | Tyche Hendricks
    An animal tracker hired by city officials was heading into Foothills Park in Palo Alto tonight to hunt down and kill a mountain lion that attacked a man over the weekend, authorities said. Foothills Park and the adjacent Pearson-Arastradero Preserve were closed today after officials learned of the incident, the first known mountain lion attack in Palo Alto, said Palo Alto Police Agent Dan Ryan. The 50-year-old hiker was uninjured but narrowly escaped with his life after the cat leaped onto him from behind about 4 p.m. Saturday, sending man and beast tumbling down an embankment, Ryan said. The Portola...
  • Mountain Lion May Have Killed New Mexico Man

    06/23/2008 1:53:46 PM PDT · by george76 · 79 replies · 396+ views
    ground report ^ | June 21, 2008 | Betty McMahon
    People in the Silver City/Pinos Altos, New Mexico, vicinity are nervously looking over their shoulders these days, fearing they may be the next meal for a mountain lion prowling the area... On Friday, the body of Robert Nowojski, 55, was found about 75 yards from his Pinos Altos home, severely mauled and partly fed upon. The animal would not leave until Game and Fish officers shot at it. Although not yet confirmed with an autopsy, authorities suspect the lion is responsible for the fatal attack. Hunters with hounds are now tracking the animal. Several people reported sightings of the mountain...
  • Wyoming officials confirm fifth case of plague found in mountain lions

    06/09/2008 1:03:34 PM PDT · by girlangler · 16 replies · 569+ views
    The Prairie Star ^ | June 6, 2008 | report
    Wyoming officials confirm fifth case of plague found in mountain lions Friday, June 6, 2008 4:51 PM MDT Mountain lion hunters, the owners of domestic cats and others who may come in contact with mountain lions in Wyoming and other Western states are urged to protect themselves and their animals against plague. “Plague was confirmed in a mountain lion found dead in mid-April by a landowner in rural Johnson County,” said Todd Cornish, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture's Department of Veterinary Sciences. Cornish said this is the fifth case of plague confirmed in mountain...
  • Mountain Lions Stop By For A Drink

    06/01/2008 9:09:42 PM PDT · by george76 · 46 replies · 329+ views
    TheDenverChannel ^ | June 1, 2008
    Mountain Lions Stop By For A Drink
  • Mountain lion spotted on Scotts Valley campus ( Again )

    06/05/2008 5:51:46 PM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies · 166+ views
    A mountain lion attacking a small animal was spotted by students living near Gerhart Hall on the Bethany University campus in Scotts Valley Monday night, the second such sighting in as many days... Students reported seeing the cougar on both Sunday and Monday nights... Students are also being advised to avoid jogging or walking alone during the early morning hours or at dusk to avoid coming into contact with a mountain lion.
  • Cougar killed after stalking Ore. girls

    06/03/2008 12:20:48 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 38 replies · 2,206+ views
    KATU.com ^ | June 3, 2008 | Staff
    NEAR WIMER, Ore. - Two girls got a scary close encounter with an aggressive cougar in southern Oregon over the weekend.According to the family, 8-year-old Gina Granacki and 6-year-old Annie Granacki were riding their bikes to their home near Wimer on Saturday to grab a sandwich when the older girl was approached by the animal.Gina quickly followed the instructions her parents and school teachers had taught her, putting the bike between her and the mountain lion and not running."...She knows you can't run from a cougar," her mother, DeAnna, told KDRV-TV in Medford. "They'll attack."Her younger sister ran to get help,...
  • High-tech collars to reveal the secretive behaviors of mountain lions (CA)

    05/28/2008 11:15:57 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 5 replies · 111+ views
    Mongabay.com ^ | May 28, 2008 | María José Viñas
    A handful of mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California soon will wear high-tech collars as part of a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa   Cruz. The collars will reveal not only how these animals range within their sprawling  territories, but also how they hunt. The scientists aim to figure out ways to minimize conflicts between humans and mountain lions — also known as pumas and cougars. The collars combine Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite technology with an accelerometer, an electronic chip the size of a pinkie fingernail that measures acceleration and gravity....
  • Rangers looking for mountain lion

    05/22/2008 10:58:23 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 23 replies · 118+ views
    The Daily Camera ^ | May 22, 2008 | Camera Staff
    Wildlife officers said they're looking for a mountain lion that was reported this morning peeking into the cafeteria window at the Boulder Community Hospital, 1100 Balsam Ave. Officers, who are searching in the area of west Mapleton Avenue, said they've not been able to locate the cat. The Mount Sanitas trailhead, which starts just west of the intersection of Fourth Street and Mapleton Avenue, has been temporarily closed while rangers scour the area for the animal. Tuesday, officers with the Colorado Division of Wildlife tranquilized a lion spotted napping under the porch of a home at 755 Pleasant St. That...
  • Mountain Lion Captured Near Boulder Elementary School ( Catch and Release )

    05/20/2008 11:21:24 AM PDT · by george76 · 89 replies · 170+ views
    The Denver Channel ^ | May 20, 2008
    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...