[Leo Farnsworth]

One summer evening our gray cat, Oslo, was being stubborn and refusing to come in out of our field (this was about 10 years ago).

We called and called - we do NOT allow out cats to be out overnight or when we are not at home.

We started calling at 8:30 PM and around 9:30 PM a Great Horned owl swooped out of the sky and tried to get Oslo. He Howled and ran under the porch.

Half an hour later we coaxed him in and treated the two cuts on his back.

The next day, I was on my deck in the afternoon and a similar (likely the same) GH owl flew over the corner of the deck (virtually silently!).

I was happy Oslo was safe inside.

The following month or so there was a FRONT COVER article in National Geographic on the ‘loss’ of the Great Horned owl in the Rockies (especially in Bozeman, MT), written by some dooofus from Bozeman - where this whole thing occurred.

Environmentalists lie and lie and lie.

[mware]

I recall a similar tale (I think here at FR)

It involve a little dachshund and a hawk. The hawk got ahold of the little pup,but his owner had a broom in her hand and whacked the hawk, causing the hawl to drop the puppy.

Poor thing, every time from then on, when it went outside the first thing it would do was look up.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Are you familiar with Triple Tree in Bozeman?

Looks like you are going to get a good bit of snow tonight. Enjoy! I would give anything to be at Moonlight Basin tomorrow.