Posted on 03/05/2014 8:03:55 PM PST by chrisinoc
Authorities are searching for an “aggressive” mountain lion that killed a German shepherd in a Fontana backyard Wednesday and kept returning to the home despite being shot at by police.
About 3:30 a.m. a resident in the 4100 block of Fox Borough Drive heard his dog crying out and went outside to find a large mountain lion standing over his dead 100-pound German shepherd, the Fontana police said in a statement.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aggressive-mountain-lion-search-20140305,0,6377684.story#ixzz2v9UKdfWZ
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Yes I think your right. Dog didn’t see it coming. Still we had a bad ass Doberman when I was a kid...No way a cat could sneak up on him. Doubt thst the cat would be game for the fight.Easier prey.
Maryland has the same thing.
They’re not here.
There’s a 24/7 ‘sighting’ hotline in case you see one that’s not here.
You will be fined $10,000 and serve possible jail time should you so much as even look at one who’s not here, wrong.
Prior to the appearance of these contradictory posted threats, a hunter on Sideling Hill barely escaped being attacked by a mountain lion who was officially not here.
Having said that, I think the owner should buy himself a nice pack of Plott Hounds, next.
My Wonder Dobe used to run the neighborhood strays.
He’d come up alongside them at a full gallop, reach down, seize them, snap their necks and fling their bodies into the roadside brush in one elegant, fluid move.
So, I call BS.
As far as “pound for pound” goes, that cat should’ve tried to pull that crap with a Ridgeback.
:)
“This guy’s home sets in a canyon at the edge of some of wildest portions of the San Bernardino Mountains. Small wonder he gets ‘visitors”.”
I grew up along the base of the Puente Hills, and we often heard of “mountain lion” sightings.
Don’t recall hearing about attacks on large dogs, however. Maybe this cat was hungry enough to go after a big meal.
In my neighborhood now, adjacent to coastal wetlands, there are frequent incidents of coyotes killing pet cats. Mine included.
They have been “restoring” the wetlands, and that has driven the coyotes into nearby neighborhoods for cat breakfasts.
The coyote is very adaptable to changing suburban expansion into previously wild environments.
So I’m not surprised by this cat, at the base of the San Gabriel/San Bernardino mountains.
its the cat’s territory and there no professional courtesies extended to other predators. thats why kitties and dawgs get attacked.
Well, OJ was a pretty big guy but even so, every knife fight that I’ve ever had any personal knowledge of pretty much went down the same way: the guy holding the handle won.
OJ got the drop on him, and was holding the handle. The result would have probably been the same had the physical capacities been reversed.
The damn cat needs to die.
Extreme prejudice.
It's also wild predator vs. pet.
Mountain lion vs. 100 lb. wolf might have a different result.
That isn’t my real life experience at all, a man with a knife still has to out fight you to prevail, a knife is not a magic tool, in fact I’ll take a stick over a knife.
Knives are way over blown as a threat, that is why the death to cut ratio is so low.
There is a panther roaming around West Monroe, Louisiana. According to Si Robertson.
Dogs are pack hunters in the wild ,and very dangerous, a small pack of wild dogs would be deadly for a cougar.
We have a cougar stalking livestock here in the neighborhood... I'd hate to be the one to have to shoot it..they are so beautiful.
Raised from kittens cougars can be very lovable....but I could never trust one.
But then there's these here critters.....
(Warning! Severe cat squash fever depicted.)
You mean like King Leonardo Lion of Bongo Congo?
GSD ping
>> Depends on the circumstances. Likely the German shepherd was ambushed while sleeping.
Feel guilty for laughing, but...
A cat of equal weight would prolly dominate in every category.
2 coonhounds take down cougars regularily.
my coonhound made short work of a big pit that attacked him.
my buddy’s grandfather had a pet lion in the 70s and it got along with the german shepards heh.
I’m really laughing at some of the comments being made, some people really have no Idea just how big a Mountain lion can get, 200 plus pound Tom’s are not uncommon. Mountain lions regularly feed on animals bigger than most dog’s. Mule Deer, young Elk and Big Horn Sheep, all can go over 300 lbs easy. A big Bob Cat might go 35 lbs down here and the much larger coyotes don’t even think about messing with them.
If you want to turn your bad azz 100 lb dog into cat scat just let it go head to head with a big Tom Mountain Lion.
i heard that... a friend of mine used to run Plott's in Georgia, fine dogs
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