Mountain lion kills family dog, ...in the BEDROOM

If only that dog was packin' heat and aware of the 'castle claws' (heehee) he coulda defended hisself and his property and this woulda never happened. If dem mountain lions knew that dogs were armed, you could bet dollars to donuts they wouldn't fuck wit 'em so much.

Well, what's sad is we continue to build and move into the remaining natural habitat of these beautiful animals, and as a result they adapt by taking their own risks for food, etc.

And then we kill them for it.

True. Its like the people that built and bought homes in the Florida swamps and then started complaining about how the alligators were "invading" their neighborhoods. Yeesh.

creatures are more robust than we are taught to believe.

We have more wildlife now than we used to!

Living in the "wild" one must take precautions.

Even living in a city! one must take precautions!

Doors OPEN?!? That's a sure way to invite trouble ... of any kind!

That's not the case in this instance. The couple has lived in that house for over 20 years.

They may have moved there when land was still abundant, but what about the houses around them?

I could buy a 100 acres of land and have a peaceful existance with the local wildlife, but as soon as I sell the land around me and it gets built up...the balance of nature is then upset.

What would you have done? I damn sure would have shot the thing and put it on my wall. Equally, if a human is stupid enough to venture into a mountain lion's den, he deserves to be that lion's dinner.

I guess it's a bad year for the cat chow bushes out in the wild.

I would have never given an animal, insect or intruder easy access into my home.

Even now, in the safe neighborhood I live, I would never leave my home open to unexpected invasion.

Rule #1 when living in Bear/ Mt Lion country .....


......close & lock the goddamn doors & windows. I cant tell you how many folks I knew that woke up to find bears in the house because they thought a screen would stop them.

Darwin was right, the stupid are doomed.

Never bring a dog to a cat fight.
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ROFL

go out on a Saturday night here in the Uk, and you'll see is dogs cat fighting.

especially when the cat has about 100 lbs on the dog!

A 130 pound mountain lion's territory is pretty much wherever it wants to be ... could be a wilderness homestead or an urban housing development. These big cats have no natural predators and very little fear of humans.

We are waaay more leery of big cats than anything else - including bears, moose, wolves, coyotes - anything. Because they don't fear us or our noise, and because the cats will stalk you and attack from above where you least expect it.

Beautiful creatures yes, but too dangerous to have around humans, especially children.

If you are being stalked, make yourself look as large as you can, maybe pull your coat up around shoulders and spread out. If you have a child with you, put the child up on your shoulders. If no weapon, get one - a big thick stick is better than nothing.

Sounds like it's time for a hunt in Colorado.

You're right about humans moving into their territory; there's no room for cougars anywhere on the front range, and this sort of thing only gets more common.

To paraphrase someone on another thread, all your dens belong to us.

Go for the neck when you cut these critters, and never hike without a sharpened combat bayonet even if you pack a firearm. I don't believe in hunting them, but I do believe in self defense.

motion sensors ..vibration sensors anyone .shop online ..portable burglar alarms anyone ..lock doors use slide bolts even on basement doors ..use heavyduty door knob jammers to buy extra moments ..window pins .lots of alarms ... be prepared to defend your family fast ..from killers on two or four feet .know the law .family members need certified gun course .to respond accurately and within the law ...vibration alarms on windows doors are a must ... criminals kill people, even when victims give them all the valuables ...be ready .keep doors locked and slide bolted and door knob jammers vibration alarms. ..,

I see the value of this advice, tho I'm not much for knives.

The hunts are necessary to bring down the numbers. When the overall cat population hits max for the game available in that area , it is usually the young males that move INTO an area already habited by humans as they try to establish their own territory.

And they will take children. Other than housepets, kids are the easiest prey.

weird and wild stuff

poor dog


what type of breed was the other dog that was unharmed?

I agree, Sireen-reborn, and sadly this problem will never go away. The animal acts out of natural instincts and humans need to take certain precautions when living in their territories.

I have always lived in mountainous areas and it is just common sense to bring your pets in at night. These people did but they left a door open. There was the case of the woman in Cool, California who was killed when she was jogging out in the woods and jogged by a mother with babies.

It was unfortunate but you just don't go jogging or racing a bike through the woods in cougar and bear country. These animals don't stalk us but will attack when cornered or startled. They generally want to be left alone.

It's unfortunate that when the deer population is down that they seek food (our cats and dogs included) in the towns. Also, the very young cougar and the very old cougar are more apt to go after our pets than the healthy adult who is still capable of hunting the deer. Although I hate to see one killed I can understand why the authorities have to take this action in populated areas. It's an unfortunate situation all the way around.

The fact is, though, that they would rather avoid us than eat us. More people have been mauled and/or killed by domestic dogs than cougars. Yes, the statistic is skewed because there are many more domestic dogs than cougars. Even so, if adjusted for that, I think it would still hold true.

We used to have a female cougar living on our ranch just a few miles from Yosemite. There was a deer run crossing our property and we had two ponds. She had two babies. She never bothered our horses or dogs and we hit upon an agreement of mutual respect. My husband had an unusual rancher attitude. He loved the wildlife. Some ranchers would have shot her on sight. He may have shot her if she had ever attacked the horses but she never did. She seemed to stay away from them.

She actually became quite curious about us when she began to trust us and we had many peaceful encounters with her. She would shadow us when we would take our evening walks, sometimes as close as thirty feet or so. She always announced herself when she decided to join our evening walks. Otherwise, she went about her business and we went about ours.

And one morning her 2 babies came off the hill above and down to our house. When I saw them I brought our dogs and cats in because I knew she would be close behind. She came down and batted those babies back up the hill, biting and pawing them all the way up. She was one mad mama that her kids had done such a dangerous thing.

Knowing that she was there we took all possible precautions. But we felt that we were infringing on her territory, not her on ours. All went well for the years that she was there.

I had a couple of scary moments with M.Lions growing-up in N.East Alabama and they could have taken me out(lunch) but each time i stayed calm and didnt run,didnt turn my back on them.

I was maybe 9 and 11 years old and my dad just let us girls run wild in the woods,we had our hidden tree houses and rock forts all over the place.

I think back on those times and think something or someone was watching over us for sure because we made out of that wilderness without even a snake bite.

Thanks for sharing!

We have Bobcats here and where I grew up in Cali...now granted they are considerably smaller and less threatening then Mountain Lions, but I still wouldn't want one coming into my home.


My dog would be an appetizer for it!

I used to live very close to Idledale as a caretaker on a 700 acre ranch. Department of Wildlife had to come out and trap over a dozen lions on that property one summer after a big housing development went into construction on the mountain above us. The lions had nowhere to go but our ranch.

One of the house cats in the neighborhood paid the cougar in Friskies.