My first encounter with a mountain lion........

[Ponce]

Just came back from my everynight walk.........one mile to the bridge and one mile back home, but today there was a difference, when I reached the bridge there was this "large dog" leaning over the bridge railings looking at something in the water........I keep on walking but at the same time looking also over the railing.......I didn't see naything so I looked up and it was then that I saw what it was... he didn't move but was looking at me..........soooooooooo......... veryyyyyyyy veryyyyyyyy slowly I started walking backwards and never stopping of looking into his eyes..........anyway, I am here.

By the way, even from twenty feet away I could smell him........maybe he was thinking of jumping over the railing to take a bath in the river?

About six years ago it was with a bear in my property who was tearing down the branches of one of my apple trees..........I dind't say a word but went back in the house..........love it here.

Almost forgot......about eight years ago this lady came to visit me and fell asleep on my hammock, she felt something playing with her hair and thought that is was me but it was a deer trying to eat her hair hahahahahahahah........she was not scared but the deer sure was.

[zap]

Hey Ponce,
Don't you take you dog walking with you? I have mountain lions up here too and if we are out walking I always have a dog with me or a shotgun. Glad you made it home in one piece.

[EE_]

Might want to start bringing a friend?

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[StackerKen]

Might want to start bringing a friend?

https://billstclair.com/blog/images/superblackhawkalaskan.jpg


Yeah That might be a good Idea


Glad it didn't get ya Ponce

[johnlvs2run]

Mountain lions are extremely dangerous.

I hate the bloody things.

Better take plenty of protection with you from now on.

[zap]

I think they are just beautiful ! Just don't want to get to close.
We had one jump right out in front of us one time we were driving home in the truck, came off the hill bounded one time in the middle of the road and down into the field. Beautiful animal.

[Ponce]

Maybe after my cat passes on I'll get a dog........I had a Labrador Retriever that I got for my nieces when the came from Cuba last year, paid $250.00 for it, but took it back to the lady after they went to Miami.

The funny part about all this is that usually I take my walks when is dark and most of the time all that I can see are the two double yellow lines in the center of the road......about three years ago there was also a smaller bear sitting by the road up a little bit ways on a hill.........I did wave at it but it didn't waved back hahahahahahah.

Let me tell you, for living alone and no friends near by a lot of things happens to me.

[Liquid]

By the way, even from twenty feet away I could smell him........maybe he was thinking of jumping over the railing to take a bath in the river?


Twenty feet away is too close. There's an old saying...if you see a mountain lion, she's hunting you.

[StackerKen]

Be Careful Ponce !

Bring Protection!

[Ponce]

Liquid? I didn't detect any bad feeling coming from him, I think that that he was more curious than anything else, like who the hell is this guy......my problem is that when I am in danger I don't get scared but rather excited, to me this is good because it makes me think instead of being frozen in place.

I know that my five feet walking stick is not much of a weapon but I take it with me on account of dogs running around wild........I did encounter a group of five of them long ago and what I did was to run towards them yelling like a mad Cuban hahahahahahaha.

[Liquid]

I didn't detect any bad feeling coming from him, I think that that he was more curious than anything else, like who the hell is this guy......my problem is that when I am in danger I don't get scared but rather excited, to me this is good because it makes me think instead of being frozen in place.


Very cool Ponce. She..:) mountain lions are always a 'she'. I admire your experience. Very few get the opportunity to experience such.

[silver solution]

Ponce if you follow a set walking time you are an easy meal.

I think you should change your walks and be packing heat all the time.

Heat may do you no good. I would carry very good knife, ice pick also.

One watched a mail lady near us and she had to go into persons home and not walk there anymore.

Small lady easy meal.

One was walking down town eating dogs dumping over the trash. I think it was even eating cats? Its been a few years.

[Black Blade]

Man Saved by his Two Best Friends
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This is the cat that Mark Bailey from Mountain Top killed 2 nights ago with his concealed carry handgun, after it charged him. It came out of a tree when he shined the flashlight on it. His dog may have actually saved his life. The dog hit the lion as it was charging Mark thus giving him more time to draw and fire. Apparently, the dog had a steak for dinner that night! This was in Cloudcroft, NM.

Photos:

http://peakoilpetroleumandpreciousmetals.yuku.com/reply/12999/t/Meanwhile-while-taking-a-stroll-late-one-night.html#reply-12999

I understand that the handgun used was a 357 (not sure of brand)

[Black Blade]

Men Ticketed For Pot After Picking Up Injured Mountain Lion
Wildlife Official Says Trio Was Lucky To Have Escaped Injury

Three men who thought they rescued an injured bobcat or lynx in the middle of the highway were shocked to learn it was a 65-pound mountain lion.

They were even more shocked when two of them were ticketed for drug possession.

The trio was driving on U.S. Highway 36 from Estes Park, Colo., on the evening of Jan. 26, when they spotted an injured animal in the middle of the road near Pinewood Springs.

"It looked up as if to say, 'Help me,'" Jason Lee Laird told the Boulder Daily Camera.

The three men decided to rescue the animal so that it wouldn't be hit by another car, and take it to a 24-hour veterinary clinic in Longmont.

While Laird's friends directed traffic, he scooped up the large feline into his jacket and the three men lifted the animal into the back of the Jeep they were driving. One of the men sat in the back seat and stroked the animal to reassure it as they drove toward Longmont.

They stopped in the next town, ironically called Lyons, and flagged down a Boulder County sheriff's deputy who took one look at the animal and told them they had picked up a mountain lion. The deputy notified the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

The deputy told the men that he smelled marijuana in the Jeep and Laird suggested it was because the cat had relieved herself in the back of the Jeep. They deputy didn't buy it, telling the men "mountain lions don't smoke marijuana," according to the deputy's report of the incident.

Laird, 21, and Zachariah Deming, 19, were ticketed for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The injured mountain lion, which wildlife officers guessed was four or five months old, had to be euthanized.

A DOW spokesman said the men were lucky to have survived the encounter without serious injuries. Todd Malmsbury told the newspaper that he had never heard of the rescue of a mountain lion that size.

"A mountain lion that large can kill a deer -- that's how they make a living," Malmsbury told the Camera.

Even possession of wildlife is against the law, but the men were not ticketed for that infraction, a sheriff's department spokesman said, because they were acting in good faith.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4150469/detail.html

[Tumbleweed]

Ponce I have a a road and bridge that cross my land. Mountain lions pass through the area where I live and there are lots of deer here. They have killed some colts and spook the cattle and horses. Some women who are friends saw one on the bridge on my land one night when they were coming home. The next day I checked it out. there is a deer trail that comes up along the bridge where the deer would cross the road. It's a good place for an ambush and there was a deer carcass there. There are always lots of deer where I live so I'm always packing. I don't want some young hungry lion getting me confused with a deer or a colt ;)

A friend of mine has a boy that likes to hunt lions. He's holding one of them he got when he was sixteen or seventeen. I don't think your walking stick would have much of an effect on one of these is he were hungry ;D

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[silverchris]

I would carry heat, two knifes, bear mace, cellphone, AND a walking stick if I were you...

[platinumdude]

Just bring a big ball of yarn with you. I hear cats just love that.

[DMac]

Ponce,

Consider yourself lucky. If it were an adult, even if it wasn't hungry, I believe you were being stalked. Humans don't creep up on big cats. Big cats are the top of the food chain (w/o guns).

[Bullfrog]

It doesn't matter if you detected bad feelings coming from the mountain lion or not, when it was looking at you, it was looking at food. Do some searches for mountain lion encounters. They have been attacking people for a long time.

[Ponce]

Are you guys trying to scared me or what?......pack heat, walk at different times and so on....the only animal that I am scared off are poisonous snakes and the only ones that I kill without thinking about it are mosquito's........why heck, I even share my evening meals with the bees and wasps.

I don't feel that he was after me because he was there first in plain sight and leaning over the railing looking at the water..........anyway, que sera sera....what will be will be.

[johnlvs2run]

A friend of mine has a boy that likes to hunt lions. He's holding one of them he got when he was sixteen or seventeen. I don't think your walking stick would have much of an effect on one of these is he were hungry

Good for him. Any idea of the weight of that one?

Ponce, that cat was checking you out to see if you'd be any problem. You weren't.

Cats are extremely persistant, and the next time you're probably history.

The only solution that I see is to kill it, before it gets you.

[old steel]

We were out hiking in the Rocky Mountains 100 miles west of here last summer and we came across a park work detail. I asked the crew chief if there were any mountain lions in the area? He said yes they were native to the area but there weren't many sightings of them and then he smiled wryly and said, but they see you.

[Ponce]

Sorry John but I am done with killing unless is a treat to me.......there is only one "type" of thing that would kill with pleasure but for now is against the law......

A maountain lion acts on instint and not malice.......the only change that I will make is to carry my bear spray with a reach of 25 feet.

By the way, two years before I moved here, in 1998, a group of tourist saw a Sasquash..........or maybe it was one of the typical women that live here wearing a moomoo or mumu or what ever you call it, that would scared anyone.

[zusn]

Cougars are pretty neat cats. The largest cat that still purrs. They make pretty good pets if you have enough time and can accommodate them. They do stalk you in the wild if they are hungry. I had a friend get attacked. It looked like someone ran the legs of his jeans through a paper shredder. His hatchet saved him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1tih6dsjCg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5i4hRQogj8

[Tumbleweed]

A friend of mine has a boy that likes to hunt lions. He's holding one of them he got when he was sixteen or seventeen. I don't think your walking stick would have much of an effect on one of these is he were hungry

Good for him. Any idea of the weight of that one?

Ponce, that cat was checking you out to see if you'd be any problem. You weren't.

Cats are extremely persistant, and the next time you're probably history.




john my friend told me what that lion weighed but I can't remember for sure. It was one of the bigger ones though.

[Serpo]

Chupacabra found? Officer kills it, claims: 'It wasn't normal'
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We just learned where we DON'T want to spend our summer vacation—Hood County, Texas. That's because not one, but two "strange, coyote-like creatures" have been killed within 10 miles of each other. And locals there are saying that the ugly animals could be ... chupacabras.

"It was ugly, real ugly, I'm not going to tell no lie on that one," Hood County Animal Control Officer Frank Hackett told NBC's Grant Stinchfield about the animal he found and killed in an old barn.

A few days later, rancher Jack Farr also killed one of the bizarre creatures.

"I have heard of a chupacabra before, but I thought it was some sort of mythological thing," he said. "I've seen deer and coyotes. This had deer ears, big teeth and pinkish skin like nothing I've ever seen before."

Hood County Animal Control sent one of the animals to Texas A&M for DNA testing, but until the results are in, doctors there have only said it's some kind of coyote hybrid.

http://blastr.com/2010/07/chupacabra-found-officer.php

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Are you guys trying to scared me or what?......pack heat, walk at different times and so on....the only animal that I am scared off are poisonous snakes and the only ones that I kill without thinking about it are mosquito's........why heck, I even share my evening meals with the bees and wasps.

I don't feel that he was after me because he was there first in plain sight and leaning over the railing looking at the water..........anyway, que sera sera....what will be will be.



Ponce, I like you for many reasons, but it takes a special person to stare at death and say, "Whatever happens, happens."

[Ponce]

Hahahahahah thanks Egypt, like I wrote a while back ......I have been clinically dead three times and all that happened is that I went to sleep and then woke up, I didn't see any bright light or tunnel or anything like that............the last time I woke up to my doctor dressed in a tux looking down at me.

By the way, while backing away from my buddy I was also looking over the railing and planning where to jump to if it were to come after me, about a 25 feet jump...........I am crazy but not stupid.

Just got back from my daily walk about ten minutes ago..........all A OK.