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Cougar tries to get inside house (home invasion) - see the pictures
Richard Zickefoose ^ | March 1, 2006 | Mini-14

Posted on 03/11/2006 11:28:31 AM PST by Mini-14

A friend of mine took these pictures of a cougar.  He lives right outside of Yellowstone, and the cougar apparently wanted to get inside of his house.

Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 1.
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Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 2.
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On the back porch and showing its fangs.
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Peering into the house through the glass door.
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To: Serb5150

If I can find the picture of the cougar lying outside our patio door, I'll post it.


221 posted on 03/12/2006 4:01:30 PM PST by moondoggie
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To: Mini-14; King Prout; Paul_Denton; Darksheare

that last pic is the ULTIMATE in VK pictures.....

I don't know about your friend, but I certainly would have been thinking about getting a rifle in my hands if that was looking at me through the door.


222 posted on 03/12/2006 4:04:06 PM PST by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq)
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To: GladesGuru
Okay...believe what you will, Guru.

BTW...the most reports I've seen of cougars "regularly" attacking people is near large urban areas such as CA. where they're being squeezed out of their natural habitat.

In places where there's still plenty of wilderness, they're very elusive and will almost always avoid human contact unless they're sick or starving.

223 posted on 03/12/2006 4:10:09 PM PST by moondoggie
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To: eeevil conservative

If I were a cat this would be me.


224 posted on 03/12/2006 6:22:41 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Are you not entertained? Are you NOT entertained? Is this not what you came here for?)
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To: MNJohnnie

LOL!!


225 posted on 03/12/2006 6:24:55 PM PST by eeevil conservative (beware of MR GRIM!)
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To: moondoggie
"Okay...believe what you will, Guru."

Belief is what you are demonstrating, whereas I was trying to show you hard data about predator behavior in general and couguar behavior in particular. Denying is not refutation.

"BTW...the most reports I've seen of cougars "regularly" attacking people is near large urban areas such as CA. where they're being squeezed out of their natural habitat."

Once again, you are parroting the enviro-socialist party line. Consider that people were "squeezing" panther out as the human population expanded, and that this has been occurring in California for the last century.

Yet only after hunting was stopped for some ten years did panthers begin preying on humans. Don't forget that ten years is sufficient time for a new generation of cats to be produced that didn't learn to fear man because man hunted them.

So, the cats began to hunt man. Lack of hunting is why people were torn to shreds or killed by panther. "Squeezing" is a mere enviro-socialist myth.

"In places where there's still plenty of wilderness, they're very elusive and will almost always avoid human contact unless they're sick or starving."

Another myth from GangGreen, I'm afraid. Predators go where there is food. Man creates a more productive habitat and the predators follow. When hunting couguar was outlawed in the Everglades, the cats began to chase deer through camp areas and within 20 feet of people. I have had the nasty things within 30 feet of me and last night one was seen on my place again.

This didn't happen when hunting of the was allowed. And there is plenty of "wilderness" for them in Everglades National Park but the cats don't live there in any significant number.

Evidently neither man nor beast wants to live under Park Service control.
226 posted on 03/12/2006 7:44:11 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: GladesGuru
Okay..."Uncle...uncle...uncle!"

You win!

Happy now?

I am NOT parroting the environmentalist "ANYTHING"!

I live in the wilderness and base my observations on what I see on a daily basis.

End of debate.....you know everything.

You win.

227 posted on 03/13/2006 1:24:55 PM PST by moondoggie
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To: Mini-14

That is one heck of a viking kitty.


228 posted on 03/13/2006 1:25:44 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Mini-14

If you don't want to go Bang you can always try a snap trap and a crossbow


229 posted on 03/13/2006 1:28:43 PM PST by freedomlover (The only reason you are still conscious is because I don't want to carry you. - Jack)
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To: Mini-14

Did it hear a can opener?


230 posted on 03/13/2006 1:29:38 PM PST by BobS
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To: Mini-14

I have the exact same pictures in an email dating April 27, 2004. It was forwarded through a bunch of people and the only signature on it is from "Bob". He claims in was taken near State College, Pa..


231 posted on 03/13/2006 1:32:07 PM PST by stevio (Red-Blooded American, Crunchy Con Male (NRA))
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To: martin_fierro
all I get are X X X X

Give them a poke.


232 posted on 03/13/2006 1:33:01 PM PST by ASA Vet (Those who talk don't know, those who know don't talk.)
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To: GladesGuru
BTW...my brother is an outfitter in Colorado who tracks cougars for wildlife photographers.

There have been many treks they've taken where they've tracked a lion for miles and never successfully treed one.

If my premise is incorrect about 'urban squeeze' causing most human attacks, why don't the lions being tracked double-back and attack the humans tracking them?

They don't because they don't feel cornered when they have plenty of room to roam.

My last word.

233 posted on 03/13/2006 1:34:54 PM PST by moondoggie
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To: TheBigB

Cute kitty ping!


234 posted on 03/17/2006 1:31:25 PM PST by Serb5150 ("Tesla, you don't understand our American humor." —Thomas Edison)
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To: GladesGuru

waaay late for a reply but that chirping is the bird in the belly of the cougar. "The cat that ate the canary"


235 posted on 05/18/2006 9:02:15 AM PDT by Redcitizen (When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk. -Tuco)
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