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To: girlangler

Officials in California think they've identified the mountain lion that attacked a 70-year-old hiker Wednesday.

A female mountain lion shot by game wardens at a state park had human blood in her claws...


109 posted on 01/28/2007 8:57:47 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Myrddin

Hamm's wife, Nell, 65, smashed the cat in the snout with a large branch and stabbed it with a pen to fend off the attack...


112 posted on 01/28/2007 9:09:41 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

These attacks were predicted back in the 1990s when they outlawed hunting them there, and the use of hounds to hunt them in several western states.

They are losing the fear of humans.

Don't have time to post it right now George, but go to www.outdoorpressroom to see an interesting story about a lynx that traveled from Colorado and was caught in Wyoming eating someone's chickens.


114 posted on 01/28/2007 9:21:56 AM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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