[jazusamo]

Very doubtful this cougar was 300 lbs. Excerpt from another article:

The largest Mountain Lion ever to be documented weighed 276 pounds, but a Lion of this size is extremely rare.

Mountain Lion

[Pearls Before Swine]

Very doubtful this cougar was 300 lbs.

I'll bet it LOOKED that big, all furious and nasty in the middle of the night.

[steve-b]

I see that their list of suggestions has not been brought to us by any of the letters G, U, or N....

[jazusamo]

Cougar Ping!

[Slings and Arrows]

Reason #462 why inside furbabies live longer.

[GOP Poet]

Wh in the heck would leave their precious pets out at such an hour, especially in CA. We have all sorts of meat eating animals that come out at night here even in the cities. I have let a previous cat I owned outside (before he was hit by a car at 18 years old) but always brought him in for the night. That is just wrong.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

“This is one mean cat”.

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Baloney, it’s just a bigger cat than they are used to. This is another example of people living in an area without being aware of the reality involved. Send them back to NYC!

[ezcritter]

We live here in Crestline and sometimes see Mountain Lions and Bears.

Never leave your pets outside.

[LiberConservative]

Cats ... belong ... indoors.

[Mat_Helm]

Shoot.....shovel.......shut up.......I have even heard this from more than one DFG person.

[Doomonyou]

The mountain lion was probably 3-and-a-half to four feet long,” the woman said. “It looked like it weighed about 300 pounds. It was four feet tall.”

That's one wierd-ass looking mountain lion!

[EmilyGeiger]

“if residents see a mountain lion they are not authorized to shoot the animal, but immediately notify the sheriff's department and the DFG.” Well that's smart of them. Don't shoot the poor mountain lion, just let him attack you while your trying to notify the right authorities.

[Young Werther]

We need to assign Guard dogs to prevent this CATastrophe!

[nothingnew]

Cats on cats

FMCDH(BITS)

[CottonBall]

“This is one mean cat. Anyone caught by this thing, if it was in the right frame of mind, would be killed.”

That's a stupid statement. Mountain lions don't kill for fun, like humans do. They kill to survive.

[HiJinx]

I love Arizona - season on lions is open year-round, and it’s an $11 over-the-counter tag...

[martin_fierro]

“I was at my computer and I heard this heinous scream,” the woman’s husband said.

Duuuuude. Big kittehdude eatin' up all th' little kittehdudes really harshes yer mellow.

[The KG9 Kid]

Our neighbor lost their cat to a coyote. They saw it being carried away in the coyote's jaws. Around the corner last year I saw a dead coyote that got stomped flat by a wild horse. We have a lot of wild horse bands running around here dropping horse flop wherever they like.

I don't hate coyotes, but if I see one on the property it's blastin' time. If it's a wild horse, I'll just stay away and hope that it doesn't decide to jackass kick my car in the driveway.

[RichInOC]

“In San Bernardino Mountains...pussy eats you!”

[ExSoldier]

“if residents see a mountain lion they are not authorized to shoot the animal, but immediately notify the sheriff's department and the DFG.”

My answer to DFG? TFB. A critter like this attacks my animals and it's D-E-A-D via S&W XVR 460 magnum.

[Inyo-Mono]

Thanks for the ping jazusamo.

In California it isn’t so much, as the article states, that people are encroaching on mountain lion territory, as the fact that there are too many mountain lions in California. A retired DFG warden told me as much when I related my very close encounter with two lions to him.