On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:17:54 -0400, HK wrote:

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:51:40 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:38:57 -0700, Calif Bill wrote:


we are seeing less and less Bambi's in California. Since the eco-nuts
have protected the mountain lion, they have done what cats have always
done. Make lots more cats. Now they run out of deer to eat, and take
out pets and a few hikers. We have endangered Desert Big Horn sheep.
Most every fatality of the decreaseing numbers is caused by mountain
lions. Which are not that rare here.
All the bureaucracies keep denying, but I've been reading of quite a few
sightings of mountain lions east
of the Mississippi. Except for the Florida Panther, mountain lions are
supposed to be extirpated in the
east, but I'm starting to doubt it.
Don't EVEN get me started on that.

Ooops - to late. :)

Three years ago when I still had Duke Dogge Dog, I got a call from TK
up the street asking me to bring my M1 carbine up because he had a big
cat in his heifer pen. I said you mean bobcat, and he said no -
mountain lion.

Uh uh...


We're hearing the same denial from the NY DEC, despite some rather large
evidence from experienced trackers.

When the occasional hippy tells me I'm paranoid for carrying a gun when I'm
hiking into remote fishing areas, I am tempted to pee on their shoes.



I always "carry" when I'm out on the trails near the Shenandoah. There
have been large cat sightings, but the real threat comes from packs of
feral dogs. My buddy's property out there has a genuine bear cave on it,
and he's found remnants of deer nearby, but he's not seen the bears and
doesn't know what killed and ate the deer.

How do you know the bear cave is genuine? Does it have a plaque?

One of my neighbors here claims to have seen a bear tramping through the
woods, but I'm not sure about that. I've seen a couple of really large
critters off in the distance, too, but I think they were just dogs,
though I like to think they were bears. We do have lots of foxes,
raccoons, possums, groundhogs, squirrels, pheasants, wild turkeys, et
cetera, around here, along with all the "domesticated" horses, cattle,
sheep, goats, llamas, ducks, geese and dogs and cats.

Guess I'm lucky Illinois isn't so wild like the jungles of the NE U.S.
and the African savannahs.
I just "carry" my Star Trek II phaser ray gun to ward off UFO's.
Boring.

--Vic