I am sick about this
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20091229/NEWS/912289953/1078&ParentProfile=1062 |
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| “A little advance notice could've prevented this,” she said. “I believe it's really important that neighbors tell each other when they see a cougar in their driveway. People had known the cat was around and didn't say anything. There are kids in the area. Fortunately this [victim] was a four-legged kid and not a two-legged one. If I had known I might've had a round in my shotgun.”
How about if she had known about the mountain lion she would have kept her dog in? 100% preventable tragedy. |
| I did not read the post but I saw two coyote playing in the back field early one morning (I have to say I enjoyed watching) and my neighbor has JRT so I called to let them know to watch their pups and sheep (lambs on the way) I am bummed enough so I did not read........ |
How horrible  . We have quite a few coyotes up north and are very careful when the boys go out after dark. They will barely go off the deck to pee and then run back into the house. |
I am not as 'smart' as this woman. If I came upon a mountain lion taking down one of my dogs, I probably would go down fighting. I don't think I could step back and allow that to occur. I can't believe it took down a 150 lb pyr. so easily. Aren't they stock guardians? I would expect them to take out a pug or a non-herding/working breed without issue but I guess I always expect more instincts to be retained in working and herding breeds. 
Still, this is just awful! Two years ago my dogs and I (with baby on my back) stumbled upon a recently killed mountain lion only about 20 yards away from one of our favorite spots to play in the mountain water. Needless to say, we haven't gone back there without another human adult and dogs staying fully-leashed (which kind of sucks when they want to swim). It is scary that we have pushed into the wilderness to the point that they are living right on the edge of society! |
| That is awful. What a beautiful dog and an awful way to die. |
| I worry about Shon and Obie in Evergreen as a friend sent pixs of two mountain lions sitting on a person's car in Bailey, just around the mountain from Evergreen. |
| We have two instances of dogs being taken by young cougars in the area. A friends father had to shoot a mature cat last week as it was taking down stock. His property isn't far out of town.
Now a report this morning about the dog saving his boy from a cougar attack in BC. Poor young Golden did an amazing job and it appears the pup will survive. 
It's sad that we are pushing the bounds of wildlife and not realizing what we must do as humans to coexist. People leave their pets out unattended and then get angry when wildlife does what is natural. |
| I agree with you Sheepdogma. I live in a far northern suburb of Chicago, where we are surrounded by a golf course and hundreds if not thousands of acres of forest preserve. Coyote are EVERYWHERE around here, and some have recently decided that our lawn is part of their territory. I see new tracks almost every day, and I've gone out the back door and surprised them on more than one occasion. Oscar is NEVER outside alone, EVER, and he's always on a leash.
My next door neighbor has five dogs, two English Springers and three Havanese, and she lets the Havanese out all at once, off-leash. I mentioned that I had seen coyote again and still, she's out there with the dogs, in the dark, and the pups are all running around off-leash. It would take a coyote about 2 seconds to snatch a dog. UGH. (A neighbor with an electric fence lost her Yorkie to a coyote a couple of years ago, so it's not as though it's never happened here.) When you live on the edge of a golf course, and are surrounded by farmland and forest preserves, you can't be too careful. Laurie and Oscar |
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