The unnamed woman punched the 65-pound wild animal and wrestled it away from her child in the front yard of the family’s house in Calabasas on Thursday, authorities said.
The youngster sustained traumatic injuries to his head and upper torso but was recovering in stable condition at a Los Angeles hospital. My guess is when he gets older he'll prefer dogs, or even goldfish.
A wildlife officer sent to the scene spotted the mountain lion “hissing” at him and shot and killed the animal on site, authorities said.
There's at least one of these around my place. I see them occasionally on the trail cam and a few deer skeletons a year
ReplyDeleteMAN! That's one DOUBLE-TOUGH woman to make a cougar back down when it's busy like that. I wonder how badly she was hurt. Having experienced meeting cats like this, they are INSANELY fast! A 65 pound cat has about 30 pounds of teeth and claws...
ReplyDeleteGuess it goes to show, don't MESS with a momma bear!
I live a mile from a Wisconsin State Park, that has had DNR confirmed cougar sightings. If I am out and about on foot, after dark, my SIG P250F9is going along. Sixteen Winchester Silver tips should get the message across, if needed.
ReplyDeletePoor little Johnnie , his first experience with a Cougar was not what he had hoped for !
ReplyDeleteThis kind of thing wasn't a problem until the voters of California passed Proposition 117, the California Wildlife Protection Act of 1990. Before that I used to only see them where they belonged, in the woods and far from civilization. Now they are literally everywhere, including the riparian area in front of my house.
ReplyDeleteNow I see the same people that got the law passed in California are working on outlawing the hunting of mountain lions in Arizona, even though lion populations are stable there despite having a legal permitted hunt.
Momma was brave.
ReplyDeleteIf she'd had a simple .22, pistol or rifle, she could have solved the problem permanently all by her ownself.
That's a lesson right there.
FTR, Calabasas is the westmost edge of NW City of Los Angeles proper, and bordered by relatively boundless wildlands and national forest to the south, west, and northwest, over in the lower right corner of the San Fernando Valley. I grew up and lived next door.
The cats regularly prowl about, there, but the clueless suburbanites turn their munchkins out with nary a thought, until they hear the screaming.
The mountain lions are not endangered, and ought to be hunted waaaaay back into balance.
But the same stupid policies, federal and state, for wildlands that have turned the forests in this state into deadfall tinderboxes, ensuring epic forest fires, have also contributed to a deer bloom, followed by a predator boom, which now puts feral and rabid coyotes and over-populated and under-fed mountain lions pushing outward into suburban yards daily, like they will.
This is how they end up looking at youngsters as two-legged deer.
The first guy who invents a smooth bore barrel for a Ruger 10/22, with a permanently attached and highly efficient suppressor, will retire on the royalties from under-the-counter sales.
"Forget it, Jake. It's Califrutopia.
OK, gotta ask, why smooth bore?
DeleteI'm a 10-22 custom built user.
Good fer Mom! And good wishes to the young fella! BUT -------I say there are Too Many People-----Everywhere!!!
DeleteGhostsniper,
DeleteMy guess is to limit the rifling marks on the bullet to make it less traceable. It still leaves a small host of problems such as accuracy and these days there are the possibilities of testing for metallurgical cross contamination but I don't know how much would be left over from the barrel to the copper bullet.
The Californians outlawed it here in Oregon not long after moving up. From what I remembered they hired a pitcher to take them cougar hunting and paid extra for some cruel video clips that they used. Now we have no dogs for bear or cougar hunting. About 10 years ago one wildlife ranger said they estimated a cougar for every 3 to 5 square miles in some areas.
I wonder if one could develop a round similar to the shotgun rifled slugs, with a plastic sabot that is discarded upon clearing the barrel.
Deletei still have two boxws of remington accellerator 30 cal rounds for just these guys. plastic sabot holds maybe a 25cal round. faster than stink.
DeleteSmooth-bore = no lands and grooves, ergo no ballistic match. Quiet, and untraceable. Accuracy only needs to be minute-of-cougar, inside of 50 yards, not particularly challenging.
DeletePresto! No more mountain lion problem.
And the Rem. Accelerators were a .223 bullet (which actually measured .224) in a .30 sabot, for.30-30, .308, and .30-06.
Deer hunting a few yrs ago walked to my stand in the dark, came out later & on every one of my foot prints was a cat track. I no longer carry an unloaded gun walking in.
ReplyDeleteThe city A-holes are the ones who voted that hunting ban in. I thought that since they love the kitties so much, lets trap a breeding pair and turn them loose in Golden Gate Park. Let the cats feast on a couple of drugged out bums. Even though I'm in Californistan, we use the S S S method of cat control.
ReplyDeleteThey already roam Griffith Park, within L.A.
DeleteWhat makes you think there aren't any in GG Park?