Saturday, October 11, 2014
Mountain lion in San Jose, California suburb
The homeowner's security camera filmed the big cat, and that is a big cat! Kids, old people and pets, watch out.
Actually, there is a lot of brushy open space around the bay area, and without hunting for decades, it isn't surprising that the lions thrive and increase in numbers, until, as the apex predator, they wander into town in search of easy chow. In a way, doesn't this mean living in the 'burbs isn't so different from living on the African plains, with big lions lurking about at night? Sooner or later one is going to get someone's kid, and then there will be a bit of an outcry.
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They eat people in SoCal who mountain bike - about one a year. A couple of years ago one carried off a baby from a picnic area and ate it.
ReplyDeleteWe're not always at the top of the food chain.
We are the top of the food chain when we carry. Better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
DeleteA friend's Mom lives in the very liberal community of Boulder, right at the edge of a park. The neighbor that backs up against the part directly has let their yard intentionally overgrow to attract "wild life" They even put out food to attract the animals.. Now there's a big cat wandering the streets, taking down a deer the other day in someone's front yard.
ReplyDeleteComing back from visiting my daughter in southern Colorado, I stopped at her house to load up an apple press that was getting hauled back to hoosierville after my friend;' Dad died, the equipment not something he could fly home from the funeral with. I was less than thrilled to be out there loading it up, my back to the brush, armed or not.
Not to fear, it will be live trapped by CDFG, and hauled to someone's heifer pasture in Oregon...
ReplyDeleteHave seen two here, right on our property. You would not believe how fast they can run. Scared the hell out of me...
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