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Got to watch out for those niggully lions!
Every home in these areas needs at least one PETA Green Freak to satisfy these noble creatures.
The Lions actually beat the Colts for once.
I read the article & then posted before reading your comment. Your comment is probably the best I have ever heard. Hits two nails on the head with one blow.
When I was growing up in Oklahoma, they were pumas. Lions still sounds like Africa to me. I used to ride at a friend’s ranch...miles of open country, a few stunted trees. On this occasion, horse goes nuts, keeps snorting and trying to turn back and I keep wrestling its head around. It finally unseated me. I knew it would show up at the ranch house and they’d send someone to pick me up. I started walking toward a tree in the near distance...I was almost under it before I saw the puma.
No one made a big deal of it. The pumas occasionally got a calf, but mostly pumas and ranchers co-existed without any problems. The horse, however, had enough sense to keep a safe distance.
What should frighten Jan is that they were in her back yard and had no fear of man. Jan should have shot one or more of them and the survivor probably wouldn't return. DOW should manage wildlife and start by protecting humans.
Thanks for the ping, George.
Human. It's what's for dinner.
PING!
I encountered a mountain lion in the Gila Wilderness one night. He came into camp to eat my burro. I yelled at him, that technique having worked on a few bears. It didn’t work on the lion. I shot my shotgun up in the air, and the lion walked off, slowly, turning on several occasions to growl. On another occasion, I had a lion come into my camp at night and start squalling. That time I didn’t have my trusty shotgun, so I curled up in my tent with my pocket knife at the ready. I don’t know what happened, but I was camped near a trail that was used by a large bear to travel between water and his manzanita berries. I think maybe the bear scared the lion off.