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Subject: [Leica] #210-----UK panthers, lions
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu Jul 7 20:07:46 2005
References: <BEF3387A.22DD4%telyt@earthlink.net> <20050708030035.46320.qmail@web51010.mail.yahoo.com>

Bill,
No, it is probably the number of large caliber handguns being carried
in Texas.  The cougars realize the chance of injury is very large and
leave humans alone. :)  Of course my experience is only from the Big D
down to the swamp and then over to Jerusalem on the Brazos.

:)

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 7/7/05, Bill Smith <wrs111445@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Never happens in TX--maybe we taste bad to them. Perhaps it's all the 
> bullshit we have in us?
> 
> Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:on 7/7/05 4:30 PM, Adam Bridge at 
> abridge@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > If the "they" you are refering to are what I'd call a "mountain lion"
> > or a "puma" then I'd say there are dead joggers around Sacramento and
> > in the foothills who would feel differently if they could.
> >
> > People DO get pounced on and either maimed or killed by big cats out
> > here. I think there is an attack on a yearly basis, probably more
> > often, as the highly territorial big cats follow water courses down
> > from the moutains on either side of the Sacramento Valley and into the
> > more urban areas. They eat beavers and other critters, not to mention
> > pets and coyotes.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> 
> Simple precautions based a little knowledge reduces the risk considerably,
> and in the vast majority of the attacks on humans these precautions were 
> not
> taken. Mountain Lions are solitary animals; an injured Mountain Lion
> doesn't have any support system to feed and care for it so an injured
> Mountain Lion is at much greater risk of death. Anything a human can do
> that tells the Mountain Lion that it's risk of injury is increased will
> stack the odds in the human's favor: have a friend or a dog with you, and
> fight back. The people killed by Mountain Lions in this area almost always
> are alone.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
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