Fiddleback
fiddleback is nice stuff are you a woodworker? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Anyway here in Bend we have no Bears and our giant Raccoons don't seem to be interested in garbage cans, and lions could care less about garbage. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />Around here everybody puts the garbage out the night before. The lions eat deer and elk up on the mountain where there are plenty.

I have had 2 mountain lion encounters. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />The first was simply a case of me being more stealthful than him and when he realized I was watching him he was gone in about 2 bounds. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

The second lion was within 20 feet (at night) and definitely wanting to attack my wife and I , <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />but I Jumped at him screaming and waving my arms (in the moonlight). he he - you should have seen the spinning legs as he jumped up and ran,. it was like something out of a cartoon - all legs and elbows, and then about 5 seconds later I see him several hundred yards away going about 60 mph. By the time my wife wakes up and says "what was that" it as over. I said "Oh it was a mountain lion but hes in the next county by now go back to sleep" so she did.

Yeah though I walk through the Valley of Death I fear no evil cause I'm the meanest Ogre in the Valley - he he.
Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />