Posted on 08/20/2025 8:42:53 AM PDT by cuz1961
...“I felt really small,” said McDonald, a biologist and researcher who’s now the founder and president of the Bay Area Puma Project, a local wild cat research and conservation organization that’s part of the Felidae Conservation Fund. “I disrupted his opportunity to get a meal.”...
...And while she had fears, “he was not a threat,” she said. ..
...there have been only 26 total verified mountain lion attacks on humans in California in the last four decades — and four deaths.. ...“Mountain lions still live in the Bay Area and move through the Bay Area because we’ve preserved enough habitat to support them,” she said. “But along with that privilege comes the responsibility to coexist,”. ...It’s not anything to do with humans — it’s in spite of humans that they’re going into these areas.”...“It’s really important to keep your pets inside.”...That goes for outdoor cats and unsupervised dogs in yards as well as livestock ...“Mountain lions will come up and eat cat food off of people’s porches,” Smith said.
But for the most part, “the last thing most [mountain lions] want to do is encounter us,”...if the mountain lion has indeed spotted you, remember: “the last thing you want to do is run or show fear,” Benson said. Stand your ground, he said, and look as big as possible. If you have a dog or child with you, you can pick them up.
“If you have a backpack, you can put that over your head to make yourself seem a bit bigger,” he said. If the mountain lion is advancing toward you, you can even throw rocks or sticks at it, he said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at kqed.org ...
Famous last words.
Any species that has the capability and shown the willingness and ability to eat my species is indeed a threat to me.
In California, the mountain lion is a protected species and you are not.
-PJ
I’ll stick with Mr. Mossberg.
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Good idea , harder to miss the puma with a 12 guard than throwing your kid or pet or cow at them.
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Lot’s of old cougars in the Bay area.
I used to encounter Mountain Lions in Western NC quite often.
A mountain lion can jump 30 feet and easily clear a 10ft fence.
I've had a lion sneak behind me while I was bent over running a big chainsaw in broad daylight.
There is no such thing as protection from big cats without hunting them to the point that they are afraid of the smell of people. It helps to have a defensive dog present to warn of an approach. If nothing else, it gives me time to unholster my gun.
The faster one was the one the Washington cougar went after and killed. He just mauled the slower one.
I expect -- and hope -- that didn't go over too well there.
KRCR, a local news station in Redding, CA, has reported on several mountain lion (cougar) sightings and incidents in the area. These reports include sightings in residential areas and parks, as well as an attack on a person near Hyampom in Trinity County.
Here’s a more detailed look:
Sightings in Redding:
There have been reports of mountain lions in the Sacramento River Trail and Nur Pon Open Space in Redding. One resident reported seeing a mountain lion in her yard downtown. KRCR reported
https://krcrtv.com/news/local/redding-resident-spots-mountain-lion-twice-in-home-yard-downtown
that the City of Redding confirmed one employee sighting in the Sacramento River Trail area.
Trinity County Attack:
A staff member at a summer camp in Trinity County was attacked by a mountain lion in June 2025. The incident led to the capture and euthanasia of a mountain lion, though it was later determined not to be the one responsible for the attack, according to
https://krcrtv.com/news/local/mountain-lion-attack-on-summer-camp-staff-member-in-trinity-county
KRCR.
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Something tells me the attacks and deaths numbers cited in the OP are as honest and accurate as the commie rag that floated this coexist crap.
California? Try to reason with it because rocks won’t work and guns are outlawed.
a lot of stories out there of ... lion attacks — ... — are extremely rare.
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Urinalist pseudo logic.
In an Orange county park in 1985, a mother was wading in a creek with her 5 year old daughter when a mountain lion attacked.
With the girl’s head in its jaws, it carried her off before the mother could react.
A hiker came upon the lion and girl and was able to beat off the animal with a hiking stick.
The child was in critical condition, lost an eye and other life long injuries but survived.
They sued Orange county and won because the park attendants had seen the animal several times prior to the attack, but had failed to warn park visitors.
The grandparents of the little girl were our neighbors.
Try to reason with it because rocks won’t work and guns are outlawed
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It’s too bad lions don’t eat only libtards, that would save this state.
Maybe we can open a lion petting zoo for them ?
Light a quick brush fire to drive it away....
I can pull out my .44 remington magnum revolver and end the conflict. I will not mind, the cat will not like it.
What if you see one somewhere else? Aside: I was hiking one day in Colorado and started following big cat tracks. Then I walked right into the big cat’s kitchen, big bones scattered everywhere plus most of an elk skeleton. Then I spotted the den opening about 10 feet away.
I retreated.
I have a greyhound. I’m toast.
My point exactly. They will get in. So since you can’t proof your yard against them you need to make sure there’s nothing in there for them to eat.
“”La Honda””
Thanks - I wasn’t aware of that but googling shows it is in the Santa Cruz Mts. That would make sense. Only went to Santa Cruz once to ride the roller coaster - swore I’d never get on it again but all I had to do was walk by it again and I HAD to do it again. Lived in Sacramento for years and made lots of trips to the “BAY AREA”...loved it - friends in Redwood City, Belmont, Mountain View..lots of fond memories from the sixties - no night clubbing in SF tho’..not our style!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hermYKHuArc
In 1998(?) a cougar was spotted in eastern MN. It was later spotted in western WI, along the Mississippi river. It was later spotted in south WI, near the IL border. The last reported sighting was in Chicago where it was killed. (I followed the sightings in the news and still believe it was the same cougar in each sighting.) At the 1:50 point in the video above you can see a cop walking down the sidewalk looking for the cougar and it walks right behind him without him noticing.
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