Posted on 03/17/2007 8:19:53 AM PDT by aculeus
They missed one from about two years ago that passed through West Philly before turning up in Delaware. The crime rate in that part of the city took a nose dive for a couple of weeks. My wife and I spotted one in the Pine Barrens of South Jersey about ten years ago. It may have been one that someone owned before it got too big, but it was there.
Fox News 25 had a video of a live "bobcat" taken in an adjacent town, just north of the 2004 sighting linked to.
But be careful what you wish for. Poor 70 year old Jim Hamm almost had his head torn off earlier this year by one of the nice puddy-tats.
... Upon noticing that the lion had her husband's head in its mouth, Nell Hamm, 65, grabbed a 4-inch-wide log and beat the animal repeatedly -- to no avail. She then removed a pen from her husband's pocket and tried to poke it into the cat's eyeball -- but the pen simply bent and became useless.She went back to using the log. The lion eventually let go and, with blood on its snout, stood staring at the woman. She screamed and waved the log until the animal walked away.
Mr. Hamm recently went home from the hospital. What an incredibly strong 70-year old! A little more information here.
Great story!
You beat me to it. I was going to volunteer some of our CA kittys to be shipped out of state to a state of their choice! We have far to many of the large felines and they have lost their fear of man since no one in CA can hunt them now.
we have brown AND Black here around Seneca... i have seen both with mine own eyes.
The great thing is that a confirmed Cougar presence here in Maine would both increase tourism and justify a bigger state government (Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife) -- a doubleplus good for our two remaining industries!
If you see one Shoot it. You will be saving lives.
http://tchester.org/sgm/lists/lion_attacks_ca.html
List of Mountain Lion Attacks On People in California
This page is a complete list of all attacks that involve physical contact by mountain lions on people in California through 26 January 2007. See Mountain Lion Attacks On People in the U.S. and Canada for an introduction to this page, bibliography and abbreviation list. See also the companion page List of Mountain Lion Attacks On People in the U.S. and Canada not including California.
Deaths are highlighted in red text. There were no deaths in California from lion attacks from 1910 through 1993.
One attagk not listed nere. A 8 year old boy was camping in the San Beradino Mountian and went missing for a couple of years . They found his remains and many think Lilled by a mountian Lion.
9-year-old missing from campground
HANNA FLAT: Mountain lion sightings at nearby campsites have authorities worried.
12:31 AM PDT on Sunday, August 1, 2004
By KARIN MARRIOTT and MELISSA EISELEIN / The Press-Enterprise
SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS - Authorities were searching Saturday evening for a 9-year-old boy who disappeared in the morning from a mountain campground.
David Gonzales of Lake Elsinore was reported missing shortly after 8 a.m. after he went to fetch cookies from a van near his family's campsite at Hanna Flat campground, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Tricia Abbas.
"It wasn't very far away. ... Adults were in viewing distance from where he was last seen," Abbas said by phone.
The boy arrived at the campground Friday afternoon with his parents, Jose and Rosenda Gonzales, and two other families from their church, Abbas said. It was the second time the family had camped at Hanna Flat.
Hanna Flat, a family-oriented campground and favorite among off-roaders, is about two miles from Highway 38 along Rim of the World Drive near Fawnskin, a small community on the north side of Big Bear Lake.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/08/10/news/californian/8_9_0420_58_48.txt
Bones may indicate boy killed by cougar
Associated Press — June 3, 2005
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The discovery of a child's skull and bones near a Big Bear area campground could shed light on whether a cougar killed a 9-year-old boy who disappeared last July from the same campground, authorities said.
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/story?id=2075458
My hubby and I saw one in the Myrtle Beach, SC area, about 3 miles inland, when we first moved there about 2 years ago. It was running across the field and ran right across the highway in front of our truck and kept on going into the woods. I had a pretty long time watching it run, and I'm convinced it was a cougar. So is the husband, who's a hunter.
Then the deaths started in CA, not one in Oregon yet, because after 1993 OR and CA made it illegal to hunt them with dogs. The only way to successfully hunt them. So now the kittens are getting more and more used to humans, and are getting more bold. The male's domain is a 50 mile radius, the female, about 30 miles. With no predator, man, they will become more abundant, on the west coast at least, and more domestic animals, dogs, cats, sheep, cows will die. Then people will be attacked more and more.
Fish and Wildlife even made it illegal for the farmer/rancher to kill the Cougar when it has attacked and killed their sheep or calves, you have to prove which cougar it was then you can get a permit to hunt it with dogs.
Someone in my family has seen one at least every other year for the last 13 years. They hunt on my property, but are still very cautious. We saw a carcass of a deer last month about 20 feet from our driveway.
"Here, kittykittykitty..."
you shoot one round here, and there's even the SLIGHTEST chance somebody will find out, you damn well better have teeth/claw marks on you proving it attacked you when you shot it else you'll be sitting in jail. in any other situation, you best bury it deep and Never, EVER, tell anybody... or else see above.
While the green area in the west is labeled their "established" range, their former range was all of North America. Eventually, it will be again.
Damn! That redhead is svelt!
Remember the three "Sh's": Shoot, Shovel and Shut up.
2 suspected sightings here in eastern Maine last fall...about 3 miles apart....
we say that round here too... 8^)
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