Mountain lion wipes out farm's petting zoo (AZ)

Arizona Daily Star ^ | July 5, 2009 | Tim Steller

[editor-surveyor]

""We were really conflicted,"

F'n moron!

[familyop]

"...send me your address, and I will mail you one."

Thank you very much. Those trees are beautiful. But we'll probably have some freezes off and on throughout the summer here (or what we call summer, heh). It appears that the Madagascar dragons would make good house plants up here, though. ...maybe after we build the large addition room (for getting some vitamin D during the nearly 9-month winters).

[patton]

You probably won’t thank me, if that stuff takes to your land...

Funny thing - you are dying to grow stuff. Down here in the swamp, we can’t kill it.

EG, dragon trees - you can soak it with roundup, and it will not sprout for three months.

Then it will grow back. And it will be pissed off.

[familyop]

To give an idea of how cold, high and dry it is here, I’ve only seen bearberries and pasque flowers (tundra plants) growing up to about a thousand feet below this elevation. Quite a bit of two kinds of sage grow here, though, and some very short, crunchy kind of skinny grass or lichen. The only obvious trees around here (only trees larger than a few inches) are extremely slow growing pines and aspen. They hug the bottoms of the surrounding peaks, where there is a little more moisture.

[Flycatcher]

FReep-mail coming your way.

Duck!!!

[ccmay]

Bears and mountain lions are one thing, but a bobcat? An alpaca could and would kick the living sh!t out of any bobcat.

[ccmay]

What got me was he has lived there 40 years and it was the first one he had seen. He just hasn’t been looking.

I've lived here my whole life. I've walked, driven and ridden horseback through thousands of miles of Arizona backcountry, and slept on the ground for more nights than most people have spent in hotels. And I've never seen a lion.

I did hear one once, while camped near Crown King. Very scary sound. Like an opera singer being tortured with vice-grip pliers.

-ccm

[Ditter]

I saw a mountain lion in Sonora, just south of Arizona in the day time. We have a deer cam on our hunting pasture in south Texas and have caught them on video at night. I’ll bet they have seen you.