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To: DUMBGRUNT; Revel; SuzyQue; cdcdawg
"Bobcats killing children?"

Pennsylvania's last mountain lion was shot in 1871, and bob cats nearly wiped out in the 1930s.

Today mountain lions are occasionally claimed to be seen, wild, and the bob cat population recovered to about 5,000 allowing for annual hunting of about a thousand.

Black bears number around 20,000 here and deer 1.5 million, of which about 100,000 each year collide with vehicles, causing some $400 million in damages, injuring 1,500 people and killing dozens.

Deer here are vastly more dangerous than mountain lions, bob cats & bears ever even thought of being.

27 posted on 04/22/2021 3:49:06 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...) )
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To: BroJoeK

We have deer everywhere here, and turkeys. There are occasionally bear issues in residential areas, but not often. Coyotes? Growing problem for years.

As a child in the 70’s very much away from the city, we never saw turkeys or coyotes (deer all the time and plenty of snakes), but no coyotes. Ever. Now, we see both in the suburbs and even within city limits, if barely. A couple of years ago I counted 17 wild turkeys in a field at my mother’s house. She had a fig tree that they took quite a liking to.


30 posted on 04/22/2021 4:04:57 PM PDT by cdcdawg (WTF is "Jim Eagle?")
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