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California Mountain Lion Attack On Humans

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If you read the book Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Laura was terrified of being jumped by black panthers in Ohio forests.

It cracks me up how we successfully killed off all the real monsters that eat people, and now spend our time making up new ones.
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subybaja said:
If you read the book Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Laura was terrified of being jumped by black panthers in Ohio forests.

It cracks me up how we successfully killed off all the real monsters that eat people, and now spend our time making up new ones.
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Big, I men Big White sharks are now seen regularly along the south bay beaches where I grew up. The Mexican government has enforced shark protection in critical breeding areas and the younger ones get pushed out and swim north. It's only a matter of time. Already one biting off the coast of Santa Barbara.
 
Etyler2 said:
If they want to eat you they will catch you and eat you.

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Description says bobcat, that looks like a mountain lion with a fucked up tail. Bobcats are much smaller. We have both here and I have run into both, as well as other wildlife in our area.

Call me crazy, but I live in their area and take proper precautions understanding that. I never do my runs with ear buds in, usually carry in a fanny pack when I run, and expect to run into wildlife. Understand where you live or recreate in and take proper precautions
 
Wheelerfreak said:
Call me crazy, but I live in their area and take proper precautions understanding that. I never do my runs with ear buds in, usually carry in a fanny pack when I run, and expect to run into wildlife. Understand where you live or recreate in and take proper precautions
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:laughing:

Cat would be shitting you out by the time you even begin to unzip that fanny pack. Yeah, you're crazy, in a delusional way where you think that gun in a fanny pack would ever do you any good against any cat that wants a piece of you.
 
subybaja said:
No surprise. Probably all kinds of BS from the Gov and the public if they find out you have poor little fuzzy puppies.


No thanks. Maybe with a 12g in an open field.
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I used to love going to Busch gardens in Florida years ago mainly to see the bengal tigers. They had white ones there too.

You know all way down to your bones there’s no fawking way you’re going to live if one wants you for a snack.
 
Yota Up said:
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Cat would be shitting you out by the time you even begin to unzip that fanny pack. Yeah, you're crazy, in a delusional way where you think that gun in a fanny pack would ever do you any good against any cat that wants a piece of you.
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Eeh. Depends on the situation. Any predator can get the drop on you, human or feline. And some don't.

Bet this guy wished he had something:
 
Well if the liberals in California really cared about the Lion they would leave and they are obviously conquerers, NJ would be a good place for them, sorry all Jersey residents. Once all the liberals leave, because morally and ethically, they should. Then the conservatives can establish a proper game management program on them and California will be a better place overall.
 
Ten years or so ago friend of mine's cousin was out in his pasture at night, with nothing but a flashlight and cell phone (wears a 357 now all the time). When he got the sensation of being watched when he turned around there was a mountain lion crouched stalking him of course there was no cell service, and even though he could see the light at Craig's place noway to get a hold of him. He said he yelled threw rocks and sticks till it decided to go else where. Called in the gov hunter found out he had three of them roaming his area
 
Yota Up said:
Yup. For every lion you see, at least 20 have seen you and you never knew it.

Told my wife about this story and she says "thank CA for the moratorium on hunting them".
The populations are blowing up, it's time we put them on the menu and have CA DFG issue tags.
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It tastes like pork...

Saw several throughout the years bumming around Northern Idaho and Montana, several hundred probably saw me that I never knew about.
 
smurfblue40 said:
I was face to face (ok, danger close) to a bobcat back when I was in high school. I was taking out the trash, rounded the corner behind the garage and there he was :eek:. We backed up to Mt.Diablo state park, kitty cleared a six foot fence like it was nothing to head back to the wild.
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Funny I lived in Clayton for a couple years, lived in the neighborhood above the little store with all the green belts. Used to hike to the top from your back yard and my dad would have my mom pick us up at the lookout.
 
east_beast said:
The problem is that if you're attacked by a mountain lion there's a very good chance you never realized it was there until you're wearing it like a backpack with it's teeth sunk into your neck.
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I used to think that also until the two attacks we've had in my backyard recently. One would definitely have time to start blasting in both of them. Most guys randomly filling a tag here lately have been shooting them while they're calling for deer/elk and hear something or get a sense there's danger and turn around and lion is putting the stalk on them.
Wheelerfreak said:
Description says bobcat, that looks like a mountain lion with a fucked up tail. Bobcats are much smaller. We have both here and I have run into both, as well as other wildlife in our area.

Call me crazy, but I live in their area and take proper precautions understanding that. I never do my runs with ear buds in, usually carry in a fanny pack when I run, and expect to run into wildlife. Understand where you live or recreate in and take proper precautions
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that's a bobcat. Might want to get an eye exam sooner than later. :flipoff2:
 
we get mountain lions at my dad's family ranch.. but i never heard of someone actually killing them..

never saw a good picture from a good camera

yet they do show up on game cams
 
J.Cole said:
I've always been more concerned about the mountain lions than the bears here in Northern California, but maybe thats just me 😂
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You’re not alone. We’ve had 10-15 bear visits in the 20 years we’ve lived here.

I even left some fish guts out one night just so my boys could see him the next night.

He stood up and munched on some trout heads on my stack of firewood rounds, we took some pics, and he waltzed away.
 
Splib said:
My Kayaking partner knew her. She was a triathlete and ran the Tahoe Auburn race. Media made it sound like kitty ate some little girl. She was covered with bite marks from trying to fend it off with her arms. She was dragged of and partially eaten. The lion was tracked, killed and was a diseased mother with two kittens. I have no love of them. California - One of our members has met one face to face and shot it. Another has described leaving a huge raw meat baited hook suspended from a branch to make a gruesome catch. Finished with a shot to the head or so. . . .. I know, cool story.

edit: yeah what Spreader said. One of the loudmouth assholes was Lush Bimbaugh
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I was living in Sacto at that time, and I remember it as being on the Am River trail up near Folsom, but thats probably just me remembering it wrong. I was on the Am River bike path several days a week back then and would see deer, beaver, fox , etc., but never a Puma, and I was looking.
 
Roc Doc said:
I was living in Sacto at that time, and I remember it as being on the Am River trail up near Folsom, but thats probably just me remembering it wrong. I was on the Am River bike path several days a week back then and would see deer, beaver, fox , etc., but never a Puma, and I was looking.
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1994 - She was training on the Western States Trail for the race, an epic trans-Sierra grueling run for world class athletes. Thats east of Auburn and close to Cool, CA. What angered me was the media reference to a "jogger". Teh Kitteh are not uncommon an the American River parkway and there are even warning signs. Now, where there are abundant wild deer, there are teh Kits. Homeless guy snatched, raped and murdered a runner on the ART about a year back. Caught him because he had her cell phone. :shaking:

Here's the State tally and cost for the feel good public referendum on hunting kittehs.

- Verified Mountain Lion-Human Attacks
 
I was stalked by one about 35 miles east of Greeley CO. I checked a wellhead and heard it screaming on the Platte River, came back a few hours later and its foot prints were in the fresh snow around the wellhead I was just at. As dawn was breaking I heard some horses going berserk at a barn up a bit from me, all the lights turned on and then 3 gun shots. The guy who owned that barn had it on video attacking a Percheron draft horse.
 
subybaja said:
Bet this guy wished he had something:
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Would not have mattered, unless he wanted to kill it for fun.
That cat is posturing and being territorial. That's why it's pounding the ground as a defensive move to back him up and clear him out.
Totally not what a cat does when it's predatory and closing with it's prey with intent to destroy.

If you carry a gun to protect from cat, it needs to be in holster.
You're walking down a trail and all of a sudden you're on the ground, cat is on top of you.
You draw the pistol and point blank that critter and hope for the best.
That fanny pack takes a long back seat to a holster you can get to while on the ground.

My advice? If you're hiking in cat land, wear a backpack that covers the back of your neck. If you're really paranoid, go ahead and do like a post above said and have something on the back of your head look like a face. If you carry a gun, make sure you can get to it quick without having to unzip a fanny pack while this beast is kicking your ass on the ground.
 
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Uh huh. Hindsight's 20/20, even if you're a cat whisperer.

I'd rather have the choice than hope I read it's mood right.

Agreed on holster/bag.
 
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