Posted on 02/12/2019 8:56:39 AM PST by jazusamo
A California family's decision to shoot and kill a hungry mountain lion during the animal's attempt to feast on its third sheep over three consecutive nights is being fiercely debated by locals, as some argue killing the big cat wasn't necessary.
Alejandra Calderon, of Napa, estimated the mountain lion was only about 20 feet from their home when her husband a hunter delivered the fatal blow on Saturday. The young mountain lion was being tracked by Audubon Canyon Ranch, a non-profit conservation and research group based in Stinson Beach, at the time.
As a parent, I hope that they understand how scared we were in the moment, Calderon told The Press Democrat. It was a scary experience.
But Audubon Canyon Ranch, which just started following the mountain lion with a special collar last week, has encouraged landowners to call their Living with Lions research team to capture and remove any wild animals that attack livestock.
"In another win for wildlife, last night a very caring and involved landowner chose to call our Living with Lions team to capture and collar a mountain lion who killed her goat," the organization wrote, in part, on Facebook last week. "This landowner joins two others in the past month who did the right thing when faced with a pet livestock loss: they recognized that killing the lion via a depredation permit would do no good and that by opting to GPS-track these lions, our entire North Bay community will be able to learn so much more about coexisting with wildlife."
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My wife jumped out of the car to get a picture of a herd of Dall sheep right next to the road one time. “Babe... Wait...” too late, never saw her run that fast before ever. She just barely made it back to the car and in the door. lol
Lion has a right to eat too.””
When the lion is making lunch out of:
Your kids
Your dogs
Your kitties
Your chickens
Your sheep
Your horses
Your goats
Your rabbits
You might think differently.
Leave it to California to debate killing a wild, dangerous animal attacking your livestock and putting your family in danger, while simultaneously ignoring the slaughter of babies by the millions and moving continually toward the Marxist ideology that caused the torture and murder millions of men, women, and children.
Living With Lions?
Seriously?
The sheep could not be reached for comment.
Although, if true, I do have a problem with someone killing a cougar just 20 feet from my home.
That's half the fun.
Pull the collar & hang it on a part of the local garbage truck. start—stop—start—stop. Should drive the trackers nuts.
No problem. Thanks for the clarification which makes good sense.
Oops. I misread. The guy that killed it was the homeowner.
Good shooting Ace. Very good.
Shoot, shovel, silence.
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Shoot, smash, shovel, silence.
Don’t forget to smash the collar.
Garbage trucks have different “route areas” different days of the week too. lol
How hungry could kitty be, having taken two other sheep over a couple of days? I’d think a sheep would feed him for several days. He might have been killing for fun!
Stockholm dummy kept it alive longer.
I like the way you think, but there’s got to be a better way lol.
The lion had to be shot because the guy from Colorado wasn’t there to kill it with his bare hands.
[[Lion has a right to eat too.]]
They sure do- but man has a right to protect both himself and his property-
I had a somewhat similar experience in Rocky Mt. National Park. I was photographing a herd of elk, who kept coming closer and closer to me, even though I kept backing away. I was about 15-20 feet from a huge bull with an armchair sized rack on him. I didn't want to be that close, but the elk kept coming closer to ME as they grazed. However, it was all good. They knew I was no threat and I was thrilled to see little behavioral details I'd never read about. But I majored in zoology, my specialty was animal behavior, and I had a lifetime of experience reading animal non-verbal cues.
Meanwhile, a bunch of yahoo tourists came on the scene. They kept approaching the elk, which made me very nervous. Finally, I said to them, "Stop! Any closer and you will spook them. You want those very sharp antlers run through you, powered by hundreds of pounds of muscle? Back off!" A few seconds later, I heard a deep masculine voice say, with a slight Southern twang, "Thank you ma'am. You may have saved some lives."
I've also run across yahoo tourists who were practically on top of a bear who was munching berries in a thicket, and there were no trees around if things went south. These people come to wildlife areas, totally ignorant of the fact that it's NOT a petting zoo, and violate the animals' space never thinking it might take exception to that and strike out at them in defense.
LOL! I’ll bet he’s glad he wasn’t there, one time is once too many.
Hopefully people in the area will now know to remove the battery from the gps collars after killing the lions. Problem solved. Don’t give them back. Those things are expensive, and after enough are lost the stupid do-gooders won’t bother anymore.
by opting to GPS-track these lions, our entire North Bay community will be able to learn so much more about coexisting with wildlife.”
= = =
Change ‘lions’ to ‘illegals’
And learn to coexist.
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