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The story makes more sense when you look at the pictures with the article (from the video). These sheep weren’t inside a barn, they were in an outdoor pen adjacent to a barn. I was wondering how the mountain lion got into the barn, since presumably a rancher who’d already lost several sheep would close and secure the barn door if his sheep were insie for the night.
PETA should protest the mountain lion’s actions. How horrible, to rip a living animal apart limb from limb, and consume it raw.
Global Warming to blame?
Mountain lions doing the jobs the butcher does not want to do (pass the mint jelly, please....)
At least the NDW had enough sense not to relocate it.
I wonder if having a donkey or 2 onsite would have prevented a mountain lion from getting into the pen area like it did.
My first thought viewing that was, “Boy, that’s a puny mounatin lion.”
That explains it!
Vince Foster was killed by a mountain lion!
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. Maybe because they were penned up but still strange (I wonder if it was all of the penned sheep?). There is also the fact (though PETA would deny it probably) a blood-lust, joy in the ability to do something, that does NOT solely exist for humans.
...there’s a good reason that mountain lions were almost wiped out in this country....they’re dangerous....last month one was shot in Chicago...down the way from Wrigley Field where the Cubs and Reds were playing...DNA showed the lion was from the Black Hills of S.D....that cat traveled some 900 miles and ended up getting shot by a cop in an alley.
One would think that after a while the cat would learn that sheep always taste like sheep and go find someone who has goats or something better.
“The lion trapped near Foerschler’s 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, there’s not really any place to take it where it won’t be a disruption,” Lansford said.”
WRONG. Ship it to a PETA convention!!!!
No sheep dog?
Yummmm... Baby Lamb-chops.
I think out of all the critters I see out in the woods that can kill me without breaking a sweat mountain lions are the ones that scare me. Any others chances are I’ll see them and have warning enough to shoot them first....mountain lions probably already be pretty well mauled before you know it’s there.
At the Cabela's in North Reno, they have a taxidermized mountain lion on display that was killed in the Virginia Mountains behind my house. It's bigger than the taxidermized timber wolf mounted on display just below it. I was in shock when I saw it.
I've seen mountain lions in SoCal that were half the size of this Nevada animal and had thought that mountain lions were mountain lions and didn't know that there were several types that can dwarf the SoCal lions I'm more familiar with. That trophy lion on display at Cabela's is damn near African-sized and it just startled the Hell out of me knowing that they could be coming down our road looking for a meal. You're gonna need a lot of gun to take one down.
I carry a Ruger Redhawk in .44 Magnum with Garrett 330-grain +P 'Hammerhead' hard cast loads when I go out in the wilderness behind our property. If that won't drop the biggest mountain lion on the planet, I don't know what will.
Bummer, this is not what I want to see right now....
5:30 a.m. last Thursday our dog started barking. We shushed her and then, since one of our windows was open, I asked Mr G what was the sound we were hearing. It went on for quite a while and then I opened a window on the other side of the room to listen. What I heard was about 300 feet away, right behind our office. (confirmed by the dog’s hackles going straight up when she and Mr G walked up there later)
There were 2 parts to the sound, one of which I recognized....
you got it, it was a cougar. We have a friend who used to raise them, so I have heard them make a “chuff” sound in greeting. I got on line and searched cougar sounds and found one very like what we heard, combined with the “chuff”.
The next part of the puzzle is that our neighbor down the hill saw one last year in the tall grass next to his house. He was too busy shooing his grandkids into the house to take a picture of it with the camera that was hanging around his neck.
Add to that another neighbor who listened to the sound I sent him and said “Oh yeah, I have heard that before, but it sounded a ways south of us.”
As I said, bummer.
Naughty-kitty ping
reminds me of when Kim on 24 was accosted by a mountain lion. I remember yelling “GO MOUNTAIN LION!!”
