Cool pictures from today's Denver Post. Up in Boulder, a house cat and a young cougar agree to disagree. Luckily for the house cat the door was closed. Click through for a slide show. Cool pictures from today's Denver Post. Up in Boulder, a house cat and a young cougar agree to disagree. Luckily for the house cat the door was closed. Click through for a slide show.
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This cat should be shown this article:
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_af35af60-42e1-11e0-9fda-001cc4c03286.html
I saw a program several years ago that a young male cougar that recently dispersed from his mother's territory on Vancouver wound up living almost exclusively on house cats.
My personal favorite story about a cougar eating someone's pet was the one about the cougar that came through an open door, sneaked into the bedroom, and waltzed out with a Labrador retriever that was sleeping there.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398502,00.html
I bet they no longer sleep with the doors open.
We go to the north end of Vancouver Island to camp and trout fish then finish off with a day of salmon fishing. A few years ago we were staying in a hotel in Port Hardy and a young lion, a few blocks away, grabbed a woman by the leg after she got out of her car under her carport. My good buddying in Port Alice's retired foreman friend was on his evening constitutional walk and a lion attacked him from behind and the cat literally tore his face off. He was able to get out his Buck 110 and killed the cat but not before the cat ripped him up. I don't go anyplace up there without a knife since they won't let me carry a .45. JW
Somebody needs some good hounds--- read The Beast in the Garden by David Baron. Pacifistic attitudes toward lions got one person eaten and one injured (a former employee of L's) already.
Vancouver has always had the most dangerous lions on the continent, for unknown reasons, with recorded human predation back to about 1900.
I should have added "in Boulder" to "attitudes" above...
Also ask Chas Clifton about aggressive lions!
Well you know Boulder is four square miles surrounded by reality.
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