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BruiseLeee

BruiseLeee

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Since I've hung up my poking stick, I think I'll just watch.

Interesting stuff, and thanks.
 
"Since I've hung up my poking stick"

If it's broke I'll whittle you a new one Bruise, otherwise I think we'd all miss the humor injected by it's occasional application. Just watch out for fellers with thin skins, they don't like getting poked.

Sarge
 
If you really want to know, do a search for the user name. I think a few of the posts got moved though. Perhaps it's better not to know. Though perhaps it offers some insight into the human condition for all who were involved.

:confused:

Is there mercy for the unrepentent? Nope. At least not from me. Though there are others more merciful than I.

Deserve ain't got nuthin' to do with it.
 
Bruise; you may have missed something, I don't know. I know I noticed you were gone a few days, and I even worried a little.

yeppers, it's true. I've always been a worry wort.



munk
 
You worry too much. You can start worrying if you read about me in the paper.

Man pokes cougar in the eye with a stick. Jailed for animal cruelty.
 
Should have been carrying the cardboard khuk. Would only have been a fine.
 
Man pokes cougar in the eye with a stick. Services held at Passing Fancy Funeral Home.

:)
 
Thanks to my Bro Finn who has and has had cougar sign real close to his back door.:eek:
Actually IIRC the first time he became aware of this was when he went out his back door to have a last smoke before bedtime. He became aware that something was lurking close by in the dark. Then his stomach growled and something's stomach growled back just ahead of him not far away. My Bro backed towards the back door, reached in and turned on the back patio light. Whatever it was left quickly. When Barb and I were there she found old cat tracks at the back of the house, faint, but very identifiable. Also my Bro's dog Molly has had an encounter with a cat and suffered bad injuries.
A neighbor not far away killed a cougar in their yard just a few months ago.
So far there's still lots of deer in the area so no people attatcks so far.

List of Confirmed Cougar Attacks
In the United States and Canada
2001 - Now
This page will cover 10 years of confirmed cougar attacks from January, 2001, and continuing through December, 2010.
Hunter incidents, attacks on animals, non-injury encounters, and accounts not confirmed to be cougar attacks have been moved to this separate Other Incidents Page.

[Beier's Study Span 1890-1990] [1991-2000 attacks] [Other Incidents]
Deaths are highlighted in red text.

2001 (7 Reports found including the death of a Canadian skier)

02 January. Husky sleeping in her doghouse attacked in Banff, Alberta. See this pet report HERE

02 January. Woman walking dog rescued by neighbor in Banff, Alberta. See this non-injury report HERE

02 January. Frances Frost, a 30-year-old cross-country skier was killed by a mountain lion in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada while skiing alone around 1 p.m. on Cascade Fire Road, part of the Lake Minnewanka Loop. According to Park Chief Warden Ian Syme, the cougar, which was more than two metres long, stalked Frost by hiding behind a tree at some distance from the trail. As she passed by, heading toward the trail head, the animal bounded up behind her, jumped on her back, bit her neck, and killed her. "I suspect that she may not even know what hit her." A healthy adult male cougar was later shot by wardens where it was found standing over her body. This is the first death by cougar in the history of the Park, and in Alberta. Park wardens think that elk, the main prey of wolves and cougars, have moved closer to Banff because hunting is not allowed in national parks, and the cougars and wolves have followed. Sources: (Calgary Herald; 01/03/2001; 01/04/2001) (Banff Crag & Canyon News; 01/03/2001)

31 January. Two biology students were stalked by a cougar while hiking in Alum Rock Park, San Jose, California. See this non-injury report HERE

08 February. Seattle resident, Jon Nostdal, 52, was attacked at about 9:30 p.m. by a cougar as he rode his bicycle from where he had had dinner in Port Alice, British Columbia, on northern Vancouver Island, back to where his tugboat was moored near the town's pulp mill. Nostdal was less than 2 miles (about 3 kilometers) from town when he heard clicking sounds. He thought something was loose in his backpack, but when the clicking sound gradually became louder, Nostdal sensed that something was approaching from behind. Before he could turn around, the cougar jumped him and bit the bunched-up hood of his captain's coat, knocking him to the ground. He realized the noise had been the cat's paws on the pavement. Nostdal fought the cat for what seemed like a few minutes before passerby Elliot Cole, 39, saw the struggle on his way home from the mill. The cougar was behind Nostdal, chewing on his neck, with its claws gripping his head and chest. Cole stopped his truck, yelled at the cat, attacked it with a heavy bag, and then began punching the cougar in the head. But the cougar would not release Nostdal, so he used Nostdal's bicycle and was able to pin the cat with it and free him. He told Nostdal to flee to his truck and "smoked the cougar one more time" with his fist, bouncing the cat's head on the pavement. Then he also ran to his truck and climbed inside. The cougar refused to leave. Only when Cole pulled out to take Nostdal to the hospital, did the cat run out from under the truck and disappear.

Nostdal was hospitalized at Port Alice Hospital, where he was treated for bites on his head and several lacerations to his face. RCMP Constable Randy Freeborn said wildlife officials believe the cougar was one injured several days previously by a car. It may have been the same one that had confronted a local resident recently and killed several pets. On February 23, a Port Alice resident shot a cougar suspected of being the cat, which attacked Nostdal. Sources: (The Globe and Mail; Canadian Press; 02/09/2001) (Vancouver Sun; Doug Ward; 02/10/2001) (Canada NewsWire; Campbell River Couple Survives Cougar Attack)

21 February. Couple attacked in their makeshift cabin near Rupert Arm, British Columbia. See this non-injury report HERE

05 April. Man probably attacked in his own suburban Las Vegas, Nevada, backyard by an albino lion encountered previously by other residents. See this unconfirmed report HERE

04 August. David Wood, 19, a resident near Cornwall, Ontario, went outside around 1 a.m. in response to the barking of his brother's dog. Noticing the top of a tail in the forest near the family's goat pen, he approached it from the rear and came within one metre of it before it suddenly spun and lunged at his head. He protected his face with his right forearm, which was bitten, and he kicked the animal in the ribs. The animal made another lunge before he scared it off. Though he didn't get a good look at it that night, the next day around 7 p.m. he saw a cougar crouching in roughly the same spot near the goat pen.

"Everybody's terrified," said Christine Wood, David's mother. "You used to see people going for walks in the evening. You don't see that anymore." She said her neighbors rarely see deer, the cougar's favorite food, anymore and she has heard "awful growling" in the forest behind her house.

Michael Sanders, a wildlife biologist in Montana, and Dr. E. Lee Fitzhugh, Wildlife Enhancement Specialist, Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at the University of CA at Davis, analyzed the position of the teeth from photos of the bite and determined that the bite matched that of a cougar. This is the first confirmed cougar attack in the East since 1751. Sources (Ontario bite; The Ottawa Citizen; August 15, 2001; by Matthew Sekeres); (Cougar warning issued in eastern Ontario: Teen attacked by wild cat in his backyard; The Toronto Star; 08/17/2001;)

2002 (5 Reports found)

23 June. 8-year-old Rita Hilsabeck of Reno, Nevada, was attacked Sunday by an adult, 88 pound, male lion on Compton Island, south of Alert Bay about 24 kilometres east of Port McNeill, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. She was on a kayaking trip with her parents and seven other people including 2 guides. As adults set up camp for the night at about 4.45 p.m., Rita and 11-year-old Charles Eisner went to the beach to collect seashells. A cougar leapt from the bushes and began to drag Rita toward the woods, with its jaws locked on her head and neck. Hearing her cries for help, her father Chuck Hilsabeck charged the cat, yelling and shouting, and he was quickly followed by the rest of the party. The lion dropped Rita and ran to the woods and up a tree.

A doctor who was part of the group administered first aid until they could get her to the hospital at Port McNeill. Expected to make a full recovery, Rita's most serious wounds were deep gashes around her neck, where the cougar grabbed her. She also required some stitches on her arm and lower back.

Nearby fishing resort owner, Paul Evans, travelled to the campsite and shot and killed the still treed cougar. Dan Dwyer, a senior conservation officer with the ministry of water, land, and air protection, said the girl was lucky to survive the textbook cougar attack. The cougar was being tested for rabies in Nanaimo but appeared of normal weight and health. The cougar's stomach was empty, indicating the lion was hungry. Sources: (CH Victoria; 06/24/2002; BCTV News on Global; Girl survives cougar attack on island) (The Vancouver Sun; 06/25/2002; Jeremy Sandler; Girl, 8, saved from cougar attack) (The Province; 06/26/2002; News; A10; Keith Fraser; Cougar that bit girl was 'hungry')

01 August. 61-year-old David Parker was attacked by a 100 pound (45 Kg) adult, male cougar at about 7:30 p.m. on his nightly stroll along a road near his home about two kilometres outside of Port Alice. Because of a sudden downpour, he took shelter from the rain under a rock ledge hanging over the remote gravel road. As he leaned against the rock shelf outcropping, the cougar pounced down beside him, startling him. When he went for his pocket knife, he left his neck exposed and the cougar lunged. He had to throw his head in a way to protect his neck, *which is when it bit his scalp and pulled it down over his eyes. In the struggle, Parker was hurled into the ditch, where his jaw was shattered against a rock and his cheekbone broken.

As the cat clawed and bit into his neck, face, and head, Parker managed to open his knife's three-inch blade, stab the cougar a few times, and eventually slit it's throat, leaving the cat to bleed in the middle of the gravel road.

With darkness descending and no one nearby on the deserted gravel road, Parker, a retired millworker, managed to walk one kilometre to an industrial log sorting depot, where Jeff Reaume sped him to hospital in a company-owned logging ambulance. Reaume said whether by instinct, knowledge, or luck, Parker was able to slash the throat of the mauling cat -- the surest way to kill it. "He knew how to cut the cat. He knew what he was doing. If it was someone who didn't know how to cut it, we'd have found a body there -- or nothing at all, just blood." A friend of Parker's, Larry Pepper, mayor of the small forestry-dependent town near the north end of Vancouver Island, figures the cougar kept fighting for two or three minutes even after being slashed, but it finally died on the road. "Not that many people get attacked by a cougar and get away."

From the hospital in Port Alice, Parker was transferred to Port Hardy, then air-lifted to Victoria's Royal Jubilee Hospital, where he underwent reconstructive facial surgery the next day after which he was listed in stable but critical condition in the intensive-care unit.

The cougar in Parker's attack appeared healthy but was clearly hungry. An autopsy will be performed on the cougar to determine whether it was injured, diseased, or had anything in its stomach at the time of the attack. "He was skinny but he wasn't starving to death," said Conservation officer Ken Fujino. Port Alice residents have long been aware of the dangers of cougars and have been warned by officials to walk in groups or carry bats, knives, or pepper spray to protect themselves from aggressive cats. Thursday's attack was the fourth in about two years for the north Island and the second for Port Alice. Sources: (Vancouver Sun; Man kills cougar in fight to survive; Jim Beatty; August 03, 2002) (Vancouver Sun; From the jaws of death; Jim Beatty; August 08, 2002) (Vancouver Sun; Cougar attack a fight to the death; Jim Beatty; August 08, 2002) (Times Colonist (Victoria); Survival Instinct; Emily Bowers; August 08, 2002)

11 September. 31-year-old Gwyn Stacey, was attacked by a cougar as she jogged with her dog between 6 and 7 p.m. near Summit Lake, just west of Olympia, Washington. She ran into the cougar, which she estimated to weigh 80 or 90 pounds, at the top of the peak on her routine run. It was on top of a rock outcropping. It disappeared after a short time during which she yelled and waved her arms. After backing away for a short distance, she began running back out, and it stalked her along the way, eventually running ahead of her and waiting for her. She saw it in some bushes just before it attacked her, giving her a chance to dodge it, so that the lion only scratched her arm with a single claw and leaped over her and ran off. It made only one pass at her, and it showed no interest in her medium sized dog at any time during the stalking.

State Fish and Wildlife officials had been warning area residents to be careful regarding mountain lions in the area. A report was made only when the woman happened to mentioned the attack to a forest ranger the next day while picking up maps at a national forest headquarters. Wildlife officers used hounds to track the cougar. As of the following weekend, they had been unable to pick up a scent, but they planned to keep trying. Sources: (The Olympian; Olympia Washington; Cougar that hurt woman still on lam; Olympian staff; 09/15/2002) (E-mailed interview by author, Jerry Stoddard; 09/18/2002)

For the rest of the rather long article you can go here.:D
There's a disclaimer at the bottom that says the list is Not complete.
I read in another article not long ago that there had only been six fatal attacks in SoCal, but don't recall over what period of time.
That doesn't seem like many compared to the encroachment of us humans into the cougar's habitat.:D
 
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