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Posted on 1/22/20 at 8:21 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The animal was killed about 5:20 p.m.
Why don't they just relocate the thing?
Eh, I see that there is an estimated 6,000 lions in Cali.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 8:24 am to supadave3
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This is a perfect example of why should always open carry a Laser pointer while in the wilderness.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 8:25 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
What happens when you outlaw all hunting and trapping. Now taxpayers are footing the bill instead of hunters paying to help keep the population in check.
This post was edited on 1/22/20 at 8:34 am
Posted on 1/22/20 at 8:32 am to GREENHEAD22
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instead of hunters passing to help keep t hff e population in check.
When does the t hff e season open?
This post was edited on 1/22/20 at 8:44 am
Posted on 1/22/20 at 8:42 am to WhiteMandingo
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If the mountain lion goes into youe abode and tries to eat your kid the he should get the lead not the other way around.
The lion gets it either way because we have guns and opposable thumbs.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 9:09 am to ApexTiger
It’s an alligator.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 9:37 am to ctiger69
What cal. do you carry?
Posted on 1/22/20 at 9:41 am to Ancient Astronaut
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Why kill the animal? Jesus!
they could change requirements for the park.
No kids. One adult must carry.
Or kill it.
I used to take my young daughter on hikes to where mt lions live.
I prepped her every time in what to do if we encounter one. One day she said, i dont want to do that anymore.
Five years later, now 11 she asked me to scale a sheer 100' cliff. By then i was 50.
I said, im sure there are mt lions up there and for me to get up there id be exhausted from the effort.
Suppose one is right there when we crest? Nope. We are not going up there.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 9:47 am to RogerTheShrubber
Y’all don’t have cougars up there, right? I thought they didn’t live much north of the Canadian border
Posted on 1/22/20 at 10:35 am to cbdman
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What cal. do you carry?
Camping/hunting= 357 mag
Hiking= 9 mm (it is very light)
Mountain lions are thin skinned and not difficult to kill. Any good hollow point will do the trick. Biggest concern is the stealthiest of a mountain lion.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 10:41 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I have a client in eastern Cali that told me a few months ago a couple was walking with their child and small dog along a trail. A mountain lion grabbed the dog and the family took off running. The wife fell down a ravine into a river and drowned. Terrible. I want to import mountain lions into Louisiana so that hogs can have a predator.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 10:46 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
That kid was trespassing. Lion was simply standing his ground.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 10:59 am to lsufan1971
Mountain lions are no joke.I live on the eastern side of the Sierras and a few years ago one of our local ranchers kept finding dead lambs with small holes in their neck. He thought that it was someone shooting them with a .22 and actually put out a reward for who was doing it. After he installed a trail camera he found out what it was. A juvenile mountain lion was getting into the field at night and grabbing the lambs by the throat until they died. He wasn't hungry and didn't eat them - just killed them for fun.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:45 am to WhiteMandingo
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He was just doing doing hood shite in his hood when these "hikers" disturbed his day of mountain lioning.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:50 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Damn nature, you scary.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:53 am to GREENHEAD22
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What happens when you outlaw all hunting and trapping. Now taxpayers are footing the bill instead of hunters paying to help keep the population in check.
This is the root of the issue. Over the past few decades, two things have happened that are contributing to more stories like this. First, civilization has steadily encroached on the wild, bringing more humans into contact with all wild animals on a daily basis. Second, the number of human hunters has decreased at an alarming rate, either due to a lack of interest or too much government regulation.
Game animals must be controlled in some way. They cannot be allowed to go unchecked. Nature's way of controlling populations of said animals is via the appex predator. Mountain lions are appex predators, and to some extent, they have been protected due to their numbers having dwindled over the past century.
If we protect and foster mountain lions and other predators, the fact that our habitats are coming into closer and closer contact with their natural range is going to increase these types of encounters.
One cannot have the remote life without having contact with the wildlife, be it birds and squirrels or mountain lions and wolves.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 12:06 pm to Tigerlaff
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This was obviously the right move, but I still feel bad for the cougar. Seeing the urban sprawl of CA behind him in that reddit photo makes you realize how much people have encroached onto their hunting grounds. Totally not his fault and a case of "the city moved to me."
This is 100% how I feel. Mountain lions aren't differentiating between children and other prey. When humans move in on their territory, this happens.
It doesn't mean the ultimate outcome didn't have to happen, but the mountain lion isn't doing anything other than being a mountain lion with humans extending into its space.
We have a lot of mountain lions in Tucson and this isn't uncommon here either. They're big, strong cats and if they start thinking humans can be prey, somebody's gonna die. They'll hunt hikers or people walking their dogs in the outskirts of town.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 12:10 pm to Rep520
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This is 100% how I feel. Mountain lions aren't differentiating between children and other prey. When humans move in on their territory, this happens.
Yep... Interesting how shark attacks are viewed... You're in the water where the shark lives... You know they are around...
Posted on 1/22/20 at 1:02 pm to LCA131
Far more of a problem are coyotes. Missing cat and small dog signs in every sub-division on the Northshore. Just a matter of time b4 a small child is bitten. I don't think they will kill a child. Pretty willey critters.
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