Mountain Lion Advice

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That is funny. :D


Personally if I ran into a mountain lion , I would dazzle it with my breakdancing techniques. :thumbup:
 
I've read in these forums many people never even see a mountain lion, only tracks. Their so sneaky and elusive, and come outta no-where when attacting! And the "few" unfortunate who have encountered them that way say they come from above you, from well hidden places, way to late to be a wind mill!
 
Yeah, the good news is that a mountain lion's mouth is designed to fit around a deer's neck in just exactly the right way to break it instantly; but of course a human's head and neck is smaller than that so you'll probably survive the initial pounce.

Bad news is, you'll then have a 80 or 100 lb cat on your back and biting down on your skull, so you'll probably experience a few moments of terror before you die anyway.
 
I went hiking before sunrise one morning about 6 weeks ago and was crossing a big sand wash and saw a lot of lion tracks in the sand where I was looking for wild burro tracks.

I proceeded through the dark up out of the wash and along a 4x4 road lined with trees overhead. It was dark and a covey of quail busted out of a tree right over my head, about 6 feet up. With lions on my mind, that gave me a bit of a start! Those quail sure pierce the silence of the morning when they bust right above you like that!
 
in the wee hours of dawn,I was returning from an all-nighter fishing/camping excursion and low and behold while hiking out ,there was this shrill screech and o'course above me,I was freaked out,do I sit still until I locate this noise or run & scream like a little girl weilding a fishing pole in one hand a RAT-7 in the other....I was thinking large cat ...OK ,I am off guard what now..ok..leave pack on back lay down pole and hope for the best ...I shine my maglite(yes maglite 2d) around in the tree top and there it was a freaking large Hoot owl,hooty the hoot owl scared the Bejesus out of me...he was probably 8ft above me 8-10ft ahead of me starring dead at me...Laughing !.He screeched again and flew off really low...Stupid mountain lion thoughts !!:D
 
I've read in these forums many people never even see a mountain lion, only tracks.
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My wife and two of my sisters saw one less than 100 feet from my parents house. It was stalking (probably pheasant) along a bushy fencerow in the broad afternoon daylight. Kinda cool to see the tracks in the snow afterwards. Of course my Dad and I were working cattle at the time, wondering what all the girls were staring at. Kinda rare for eastern South Dakota.

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I saw one last winter when I was out at the crack of dawn walking my two dogs. The cat was casually strolling along the power line trail about 100 feet away and didn't seem all that interested in me or the dogs. For once my dogs showed some common sense and kept their yaps shut. This was in a fairly typical suburban neighborhood but we are in the foothills with lots of wild land around. It all happened so fast I didn't even have time to soil myself. In retrospect I was surprised that it wasn't bigger (it was about the same size as my Golden) but I can just imagine what a ball of cat fury even that size could do.
 
tarmix101 said:
Is that before or after the Lion dines on your liver???

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Oh , before !

Yeap the moment I sensed it's presence I would turn on my beatbox and start spinnin' like a top , doing dance moves like Marky Mark.

I'm silly like that. :thumbup:
 
I've only seen two moutain lions, one just a glimpse in the fog while driving and the other a 4-5 second viewing in the dark while driving.

Relevent to the sign, there was a troop of Boy Scouts in the backcountry at Philmont. A moutain lion took down a deer in their campsite in the middle of the night, and hung around feasting on the deer all night. I saw those scouts in the morning - they hadn't slept a wink, with all of the crunching and slurping right outside their tents. :D

I went hiking before sunrise one morning about 6 weeks ago and was crossing a big sand wash and saw a lot of lion tracks in the sand where I was looking for wild burro tracks.
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I'm envious that there are wild burros near you. I have seen the not-really-wild burros in Oatman though. My fantasy atventure trek, living among and photographing wild burros in the desert. The Timothy Treadwell of donkeys... I'm reasonably sure they won't eat me though.
 
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