Low D wrote:
When i first moved out west, I didn't think much about cougars (often referred to as "mountain lions") , figuring they were just like a big lynx or something. Then one morning cycling to work I passed one being carried across the street after being tranquilized and i realized "holy crap it's a freaking LION" and realized the name was not hyperbole and that some of my camping that summer had been risky. I have still yet to ever see one, or a grizzly bear, in the wild, though (mind you, i don't do the backwoods camping like I used to).
We see them a lot. I have a family member who sees one down at the creek all the time while walking their dog. Though none has been captured on their game-cam (for wildlife admiring, not hunting) while bobcats have.
The town I grew up in has tons of canyons and suburban people would put chickens in their backyards and then want the mountain lions put down for hopping the fence and grabbing them. Really? Dumb asses. Don’t place your pets, small children and tasty birds outside next to a freaking canyon.
I’d see more bobcats in my last town. They are easy to identify with their hunkered down, almost knuckle dragging gait.
A relative in NV has a motion detector light that shined on a bear in their apple tree in the middle of the night.
When relatives lived in Lake Tahoe they saw bears in the bar parking lot on the regular. Easy pickings. The restaurant trash, I mean, not the drunken hu-mans.
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:26 pm
