Posted by: Jimshaw
living with cougars - 05/15/11 01:31 PM
Interesting discussion on black bear - I personally attack them with rocks and wave my arms and run them off.
Anyway I live with cougars in a deer rich area east of the Cascade Range. As I recall, when there are 30 cat/human encounters per year, the cat season is opened. The do gooders in the big cty decided that its not fair to hunt the kitties with dogs so it was outlawed and now no one hunts cougars because its a waste of time. Instead we shoot them when they have the audacity to show their faces around peoples homes.
On the news last week was an announcement to keep pets and children indoors after dark and to watch out for a pair of cougars. We normally get this once a year here. Well it seems the cougar sighting was in my friends back yard as one cougar came over her fence and attacked her billy goat. They were probably yearling cougars as larger ones have territories further away from people, so figure 250 pound billy and 80 pound kitty. My friend said the billy did damage to the cat "injured it". Well Fish and Game did bait the cats and shoot them, they also are taking my friends goat. Its very aggressive and they discovered that its like a "wolf dog" its a mountain goat hybrid and has a real attitude about kitties, and children, but he let me come up to him and rub his ears.
I have ran off two cougars in the Sierras. You just go ballistic on them, bare your fangs, wave you arms and jump at them screaming "I'm gonn eat you" and they just vanish as quickly as they appear.
Jim
Disclaimer - unless you have the right attitude, do not charge a cougar unarmed and frothing at the mouth. Frankly my backyard which borders Newberry National Monument, is wilderness enough at night to carry my .44 just walking out to my deck in the lava flow.
Anyway I live with cougars in a deer rich area east of the Cascade Range. As I recall, when there are 30 cat/human encounters per year, the cat season is opened. The do gooders in the big cty decided that its not fair to hunt the kitties with dogs so it was outlawed and now no one hunts cougars because its a waste of time. Instead we shoot them when they have the audacity to show their faces around peoples homes.
On the news last week was an announcement to keep pets and children indoors after dark and to watch out for a pair of cougars. We normally get this once a year here. Well it seems the cougar sighting was in my friends back yard as one cougar came over her fence and attacked her billy goat. They were probably yearling cougars as larger ones have territories further away from people, so figure 250 pound billy and 80 pound kitty. My friend said the billy did damage to the cat "injured it". Well Fish and Game did bait the cats and shoot them, they also are taking my friends goat. Its very aggressive and they discovered that its like a "wolf dog" its a mountain goat hybrid and has a real attitude about kitties, and children, but he let me come up to him and rub his ears.
I have ran off two cougars in the Sierras. You just go ballistic on them, bare your fangs, wave you arms and jump at them screaming "I'm gonn eat you" and they just vanish as quickly as they appear.
Jim
Disclaimer - unless you have the right attitude, do not charge a cougar unarmed and frothing at the mouth. Frankly my backyard which borders Newberry National Monument, is wilderness enough at night to carry my .44 just walking out to my deck in the lava flow.