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Loving Monsters (Cougars are just big, lovable pussy cats, after all.)
Tech Central Station ^ | November 5, 2003 | Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Posted on 11/05/2003 11:50:47 AM PST by quidnunc

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Nonetheless, the same strand of wishful thinking appears: perhaps this time, the cougars won't want to eat us. Some people, apparently, would rather be dinner than face up to the fact that nature is red in tooth and claw, and that — in this fallen world, at least — the lion lies down with the lamb only after the lamb's neck is broken. (Worse yet is the noxious strand of liberalism that suggests we somehow deserve to be dinner.) … The effort to remake the world so that it is safe for predators seems rather odd to me. What sort of person would rather be prey? The sort who lives in upscale neighborhoods, and campaigns against hunting, apparently. I suspect that over the long term this isn't a viable evolutionary strategy in a world where predators abound. 

Only a few months ago a cougar-loving woman in Canada was killed and eaten while out jogging — by a cougar.

1 posted on 11/05/2003 11:50:54 AM PST by quidnunc
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Imagine that. The fruitcakes in the Boulder area are far more comfortable with a mountain lion killing a person than the other way around. Come to think of it, most liberals would rather see a person brutalized than shoot a two-legged predator also.
2 posted on 11/05/2003 11:54:01 AM PST by Rocky Mountain High
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3 posted on 11/05/2003 11:55:40 AM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: quidnunc

"I looooooooove yooooooou...."

4 posted on 11/05/2003 11:58:07 AM PST by martin_fierro (_____oooo_(_°_¿_°_)_oooo_____)
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To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
5 posted on 11/05/2003 12:03:54 PM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Rocky Mountain High
The fruitcakes in the Boulder area are far more comfortable with a mountain lion killing a person than the other way around. Come to think of it, most liberals would rather see a person brutalized than shoot a two-legged predator also.

Not a coincidence that the fruitcake left has applied this same philosophy to dealing with Islamic terrorists.

Which only goes to prove -- scratch a liberal, find a misanthrope.

6 posted on 11/05/2003 12:04:39 PM PST by Maceman
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To: quidnunc
I got stalked by a mountain lion a couple of years ago while with a group on an "owling outing". She made her presence known, we stopped, and left her territory. The more reckless adults were all for continuing, but we had kids with us (trolling with lion bait) so we decided to go look for owls from the safety of the road.

Had we been attacked, after hearing her moving through the brush and hearing her warning growl, it would have been nobody's fault but ours. She would have been simply doing what comes natural, probably protecting a cub or two.
7 posted on 11/05/2003 12:08:26 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (One of Those Dreaded Federal Employees)
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To: quidnunc
I had a friend who raised cougars. I was horrified when my kids came home saying "he's so cute, he loves to fall asleep sucking on your fingers" (the cat already outweighed the kids). The cat was raised from a kitten, and even slept in their bed for a long time.

Several years later the cougar was dead. He had attacked the owner when he fell to his knees in the cage, and the owner shot him.
8 posted on 11/05/2003 12:08:56 PM PST by Grammy
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Had you been attacked, you would never have heard her.
9 posted on 11/05/2003 12:12:39 PM PST by Dead Dog
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The latest cougar sighting in this neck of the woods occured three days ago when a UPS driver on his way to Colebrook, CT saw one near Danbury Quarters Road, only a couple miles from where another local named Pete had struck one with his vehicle over a month ago.

Fortunately, the DEP says that they do not exist, so there is no danger. So if you are being eaten, at least you can be comforted by the knowledge that you are being chewed to death by an imaginary beast.

10 posted on 11/05/2003 12:13:00 PM PST by Jim Cane ("I've always lived twice." ~ Dr. Sarcophagus.)
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It is characteristic of liberals to see danger where none exists and to not see danger where it does. Personally, I am in favor of liberals being eaten by wildlife.
11 posted on 11/05/2003 12:20:48 PM PST by BadAndy
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Now that New Jersey is completely in the hands of the Dems, it won't be long before the state is a risk free smorgasboard for the bears, coyotes, and cougars moving into the state. Of course maybe they'll just eat the geese. That could be a good thing.
12 posted on 11/05/2003 12:22:06 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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The problem is, they make these environmental laws while sitting in their urban ivory towers. The children of suburban and rural conservatives are far more likely to be eaten.

Buy yes, I'm all for liberals being eatin'. I'd by the video.
13 posted on 11/05/2003 12:31:07 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: quidnunc
Get an Anatolian Shepherd, not only are the fabulous dogs to have in the family, you won't see cougars or other predators hanging around your place. We've had ours for four years and while the neighbors - 20 acres apart - are bothered by bears, cougar, even wolves now, they don't mess with our place. Just the presence of an Anatolian is usually enough to make predators avoid your area.
14 posted on 11/05/2003 12:38:09 PM PST by Maigret
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I prefer a large caliber firearm. Don't have to feed it the don't crap all over the place ect.
15 posted on 11/05/2003 3:15:18 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: Dead Dog
Had you been attacked, you would never have heard her.

Exactly! She was giving us fair warning to leave her alone.

16 posted on 11/05/2003 4:02:40 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (One of Those Dreaded Federal Employees)
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To: martin_fierro
Is that the guy that was turned into bear food?
17 posted on 11/05/2003 4:06:25 PM PST by Brett66
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To: riverrunner
Yes, but your firearm doesn't adore you :)
18 posted on 11/05/2003 4:07:42 PM PST by Maigret
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To: Brett66
Yup: The former S. Cal. druggie guy who thought grizzlys could be tamed by singing to them.

He and his girlfriend were proven wrong in spectacular fashion, caught on videotape.
19 posted on 11/05/2003 4:10:48 PM PST by martin_fierro (_____oooo_(_°_¿_°_)_oooo_____)
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To: quidnunc
To anybody who chooses to think about it, this makes sense. An unarmed human is a perfect prey for a cougar -- slow, hornless, clawless, no sharp senses, and lots of meat.

It was only by millenia of evolutionary teaching that coming close to a (habitually-armed) human meant death, that cougars avoided humans. It only took a few cougar generations to reverse that

20 posted on 11/05/2003 4:20:33 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer === (Finally employed again! Whoopie))
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