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 ...
Look, my first book did successive analyses of rural to suburban conversions covering 30 years on a real-time inflation-adjusted opportunity-cost basis. Got it now?
Really, you have no clue. Most cities and suburbs occupy flat ground near riparian corridors because construction is cheaper and water is more available. Those areas are largely abandoned farm or ranch land developed long ago. Back in the 19th Century, they were more populated. Mechanization ended that starting about 1880 with the exception of areas around cities. Those were largely abandoned in the mid 29th Century as mechanized transportation made corporate farming profitable elsewhere. THEN came the burbs as the cities went decadent. You just saw the tail end of the process.
Yeah, i got it. Your mind is made up. And your first book is trash.
Reality is reality. I can literally WALK in 10 MINUTES from where I’m sitting right now to an area that was wild when I moved here. We ARE encroaching on wild territory. That is a FACT. Claim false expertise all you want, it doesn’t change FACTS.
26 attacks in 40 years.
(Oh. Verified attacks. Might be several more that were “disputed” by those counting mountain lion attacks. On humans. Animal and pets attacks would therefore be expected to be several times higher than 26, right?)
One attack on “a verified human” every two years. Illegal aliens attack more than that every year! (Maybe we should hold our backpacks over our heads against those attacks as well?
“Mountain lions will come up and eat cat food...”
“Mountain lions will come up and eat cat/food...”
Fixed it.
That's why it was hand carried into the White House by former Senator Malcolm Wallop.
I guess you've never heard of "rural cleansing."
I'm sure he means "above your head." Putting it over your head is a different coping strategy.
I don’t care what unverifiable crap you say about your supposed book. It’s a matter of math.
Everywhere humans live used to be wild
then we make a city and there is now less wild
but there is wild around the city
as the population of the city grows the city expands into the wild
so now there’s less wild again
and wild that was away from the city now borders the city
and every time the city runs through that expansion cycle the animals in the wild become a “problem” for the new city territory
It’s math. And you can see it happen. Just pour batter into a pan. You see how as you get more batter (population) in the there the circle (city) grows and you get less empty pan space (wild). That’s it. Every city on the planet has done that since it was formed. And the ones that are growing are continuing to do just that.
Rural cleansing is besides this discussion. We’re talking about CITIES (not rural) growing into wild territory. Yes some rural areas empty out. And guess where those people go, into the growing cities!
Ya well that’s Arizona not California.
You don’t know squat about our state.
Nor cal has been deindustrialization, de timber industries, and depopulated
Thanks to lefty eco nuts , city libtards, Marxist academia and years of Marxist governorsres and presidents and Congress grifters.
There are always exceptions. But that doesn’t make it not true for plenty of other places. That being in this case literally every city that is growing. Which is most of them. The ones that aren’t have their own problems.
lion country.
I think it’s cool.
/. With a name like carnage I bet you like anything negative.
If I open a lion petting zoo can I count on you as my 1st, and last, customer ,?
,;-)
But/
Ya,
that’s about your flip flop.
Always except
type crappy logic .
Not flip flopping at all. What I said is true in most cities in America. Some places are shrinking, so obviously they would not be experiencing that growth problem, because they have a different growth problem. That being not growing but shrinking.
Pull out your 10mm concealed carry gun and nail it if it does not retreat.
Walk away down the sidewalk. The cat will be so busy trying to cover up all the feces that it won't have time to chase you.
Most people are never in a wild enough spot where they’d encounter a mountain lion hungry enough to attack. So, duh. And there are unsolved missing persons cases among hikers, or as the m-lions sometimes might call them, “lunchables”.
We have lynx here, the cougars are only occasionally reported from trailcam sightings and their tracks. I’ve seen a trail about a hundred feet from here, but it was 25 or so years ago. The pioneer generation for me is only three generations back, and g-gpa had no compunction about takin’ the blunderbuss to any that showed up.
https://www.californiasbestcamping.com/orange_riverside/caspers.html
https://www.californiasbestcamping.com/orange_riverside/oneill.html
It came to me in the night that we camped at O’Neill Park years ago - we lived in OC at the time. The child attacked was at Caspers according to Mr. Google.
Oh! that we could shut our minds down when it’s time for sleeping!!! Now if I can find some papers I PUT AWAY, I’ll be in tall cotton...
I was hiking there years ago and came across a fresh deer kill. It all became very real at that point.
Sure.
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