Puma attack

[rwsmith]

Always carry a cow

There will be a spring mountain lion season this year, April 1 to April 30 in Colorado. Might be worth getting a license so you can legally take one. That allows you to keep the pelt among other things.

Still legal to kill one in the process of attacking livestock, not sure where dogs ft into that category, I think as pets they are not protected the same way but not sure.

Always take a cow with you when you go hunting so you can say the wild cat attacked your livestock.

 

[rwsmith]

Vicious boxer dog

I didn't even know there was such a thing as a vicious boxer until one had me cornered in my own yard. I swannee if I had my gun on me I wouldn't have hesitated to use it.

Any other boxer I've ever known was as sweet as pie. In my old neighborhood I had a puppy that would come visit me often. Talk about strong? He put his paws in my chest one time and pushed me over backward and stood over me slobbering, panting and grinning. His name was Sinbad.

 

[DJINCO]

Always take a cow with you when you go hunting so you can say the wild cat attacked your livestock.

I would have felt in fear for my life. How do I know that the cat was after the bait and not me?

Several years ago when I was a Colorado Ranger, while working an event in Cheyenne Canyon a lady came to me to say that she had seen two mountain lions while on her walk. I told her that it was probably the same cat, twice.

She was surprised. I said, "ma'am, what do you expect when you are trolling with that bait" (pointing to her little mop dog).

She left in a huff.

Sometimes the truth is a painful fact.

 

[jkc]

Some Californians are apparently unaware that the current prohibition on hunting their mountain lions is the relatively recent result of a referendum, not the action of the assembly, or the state wildlife management agency. Eastern seaboard residents are apparently equally unaware of the unwelcome and unpleasant potential consequences of "official" acknowledgement of the presence of mountain lions in their traditional habitats. California is irretrievably *****, in regard to lion management, having abdicated to ignorant and emotional popular sentiment vs. sound biologically based management tenents. It's not too late for eastern states to adopt sensible and sound management policies, but it appears to me that hunters and outdoorsmen are their own worst enemies in this regard, unable to appreciate that at this point, silence is golden. Let the populations become incontrovertibly established, before insisting on modern, scientific management techniques.

 

[cussedemgun]

Always take a cow with you when you go hunting so you can say the wild cat attacked your livestock.

Good Ide' 'cept my GF don't like to hunt

 

[357-RevolverGuy]

When I lived in Florida, they do have cougars in the state. I had only seen one in all my years there but the problem they had with most small pets was that they were being carried off by vultures and eagles. During the Florida winter months they have a huge "bird of prey" population that migrates from the north. Residents learn not to leave any type of dog/cat outside that is small. If the birds don't get them, the gators usually did. Unfortunately the birds were protected by law, by the gators were usually fair game.

 

[Texas Star]

When I lived in Florida, they do have cougars in the state. I had only seen one in all my years there but the problem they had with most small pets was that they were being carried off by vultures and eagles. During the Florida winter months they have a huge "bird of prey" population that migrates from the north. Residents learn not to leave any type of dog/cat outside that is small. If the birds don't get them, the gators usually did. Unfortunately the birds were protected by law, by the gators were usually fair game.

Florida still has pumas, called Florida panthers. They are endangered and reflect genetic flaws due to inbreeding. I think the population is mainly in or near the Everglades.

 

[glenncal1]

When hiking in the woods in Colorado, I used to feel quite comfortable carrying my Model 48 as a trail companion. Now with the 2 and 4 legged predators to worry about, the caliber will start with 3 or 4 and if it starts with 3 it will end with magnum.

 

[gdauth]

I know in MI if you shoot someones dog you might as well have shot them. Should work the other way around too.

If someone shoots my dog, they are going down!

 

[don5]

According to our DNR, there are NO cougars in our state.Yeah. Right. I wonder what they told the guy in the next county over that lost his horse to predation. It was attacked at the neck and killed. I have never seen one in the wild and I hope I never do, unless I am armed.