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Videos capture images of sheep killer ( mountain lion )
Nevada Appeal ^
| May 10, 2008
| F.T. Norton
Posted on 05/12/2008 1:18:00 PM PDT by george76
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To: tflabo
“I wonder if having a donkey or 2 onsite would have prevented a mountain lion from getting into the pen area like it did.”
....you really almost need dogs to handle a cat...say a couple of Great Pyranees that will stand and fight...hounds can do the job but are bad to run off if they’re not penned up in a kennel.
To: SES1066
Animals go on killing rampages from time to time. Think about it: If you’ve ever owned a male cat, there will be periods where he inexplicably got pissy and attcked things at random. This is leftover programming from being a wild animal. Reference the story of The Ghost & The Darkness - two man-eating lions kill dozens of people for God only knows what reason. They just felt like it.
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posted on
05/12/2008 1:48:49 PM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
To: george76
“The lion trapped near Foerschlers farm was a male and weighed about 130 pounds. Because the Nevada Department of Wildlife does not allow for the relocation of mountain lions, the animal was killed.
If that lion has already keyed in on livestock, theres not really any place to take it where it wont be a disruption, Lansford said.”
WRONG. Ship it to a PETA convention!!!!
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posted on
05/12/2008 1:56:26 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: arderkrag
Try wrasslin’ one, pilgrim!!
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posted on
05/12/2008 1:57:45 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: STONEWALLS
How do they know the Chicago mtn lion was a wild one who wandered there, and not a captive one released there?
To: 76Tiger
If it was a Mexican lion, probably so.
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posted on
05/12/2008 1:58:32 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: Resolute Conservative
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posted on
05/12/2008 1:59:17 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: heartwood
Most idiots who keep Mountain Lions as “pets” have them defanged and declawed.
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:00:28 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: ZULU
Some idiots are more idiotic than others, for example someone for whom a pit bull just isn’t macho enough.
To: SES1066
For me, a total urbanite, it seems to be strange behavior in that the lion killed far beyond what one would think for hunger needs. About 20 years ago I talked to a rancher and his wife that had both cattle and sheep. They had been the last of the ranchers in the area near Medicine Bow, Wyoming that raised sheep.
One night they lost 27 sheep out of 200 to a group of coyotes.
Only a small number of the sleep had been killed for food, the rest were part of a killing spree.
The remaining sheep were shipped to market the next day.
That marked the end of their flock of sheep.
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:06:35 PM PDT
by
TYVets
To: ZULU
Pfft. I’ve scared away lions bigger than that by screaming at them. That one is pretty small, unless the sheep are 5 feet tall at the shoulder.
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:08:11 PM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
To: george76
"Still, he should have closed the barn door ?"
I would guess so. I've learned quite a bit about raising sheep, but there's much more that I don't know. Sheep are difficult to tend to and require quite a bit of knowledge. Shepherds do kill any dogs (except sheepdogs raised with the sheep) on site for good reasons, BTW.
As for the lions, it won't be long before we have to do something about them, george76. Prey and predators have been multiplying too fast on the Range. There aren't enough Indians to hunt them these days. :-)
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:11:35 PM PDT
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
To: arderkrag
“That one is pretty small, unless the sheep are 5 feet tall at the shoulder.”
Maybe the sheep were registered Democrats. Average height of a Democrat voter is what? 5’ 8”? At least for the Democrats that are not six feet under.
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:13:21 PM PDT
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: heartwood
Scientists say South Dakota is a likely source for a mountain lion that was killed this week in Chicago after what would be a record 900-mile journey from the Black Hills.
More concrete evidence of the lion’s travels may lie in a piece of its muscle that Illinois officials will send to a DNA lab in Montana.
The Chicago Tribune estimated a 1,000-mile trek counting a swing through Wisconsin... beats the standing record of 663 miles a Black Hills lion wandered before a train struck and killed it in Oklahoma
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001669/posts?page=40#40
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:14:08 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: No Truce With Kings
[Insert giggling like a schoolgirl here]
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:14:32 PM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
To: arderkrag
"Pfft. Ive scared away lions bigger than that by screaming at them. That one is pretty small, unless the sheep are 5 feet tall at the shoulder."
Yes. They won't bother us, if we're so much as looking at them in the dark (so far). ...uglier outcomes for those who are unaware of their presence. Ranchers have been shooting them, from time to time, during attacks on dogs and livestock. There have been rumors of mountain lion attacks on people in a Colorado park (can't recall right now as to where) recently. And either lions or wolves, or both, have been taking more large elk down here than in past years (only large elk feet remaining the morning after the herd moves through).
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:19:27 PM PDT
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
To: heartwood
...they sent the DNA out to the Black Hills to run it thru their lab and data base....same thing with the lion hit by a train last year in Oklahoma....that one had traveled 700 miles....lot of strange things are happening with wild life these days...there are confirmed populations of wild turkeys in every county in North Carolina....I couldn’t say that just 25 years ago...
To: george76
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:22:23 PM PDT
by
nikos1121
(Thank you, Jimmy Carter for all you've done to make the world a safer place.)
To: george76
Yummmm... Baby Lamb-chops.
To: george76
I was only helping the sheep get over the fence, nothing else.
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posted on
05/12/2008 2:29:08 PM PDT
by
rednesss
(Fred Thompson - 2008)
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