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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.

[Rocky Mountain High]

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.

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[martin_fierro]

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[Not A Snowbird]

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.

[Grammy]

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.

[Jim Cane]

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.

[Question_Assumptions]

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.

[Maigret]

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.

[SauronOfMordor]

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

[Gritty]

For those who feeeeel all animals are just fuzzy-wuzzy little critters who just want to be your friends...

Death In The Long Grass

... you'll be up all night reading this book!