Non-football related stuff that really makes your day

[DanO]

Good one, Mark.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Cool post, Tony. I know the ranchers really hated the idea of reintroducing the wolves back into Yellowstone, but they are amazing animals to see in the wild.

[DanO]

I've seen a few in the U.P.

[Tony G]

I bet that was cool DanO.

LFiJ, I had no idea they had changed things that much. Pretty cool to see how 1 critter changes stuff

[LionsFanInJapan]

Yeah, I remember it was a big controversy when they did it, but being away from Montana I hadn't heard much about how things have panned out. It's really neat to hear.

[Malto Marko]

I've seen a few in the U.P.

I have as well.

Camping at lower Taquamanen Falls, had 4 teenagers rowing me around while I watched 2 Eagles circling and fishing. Awesome memories.

Also saw one in Jackson Wy.

[DanO]

Cool, Malto.

"I bet that was cool DanO."
----------------------Very cool but then it depends on your circumstances for meeting. Let me offer an explanation........................I saw a cougar back in 1992. thought it was exceptionally cool. It was getting dark and as I sat there I realized I had to walk out of the woods in the dark. Bears don't scare me as they are mostly scavengers, coyotes are a pack item and they howl on the run to kill. Wolves are similar. Cougars hunt solo and, being cats, sneak up on their prey and jump them. When I realized this I couldn't get the thought out of my mind that I was beung hunted. I left the woods before darkness.

[DanO]

Cool, Malto.

"I bet that was cool DanO."
----------------------Very cool but then it depends on your circumstances for meeting. Let me offer an explanation........................I saw a cougar back in 1992. thought it was exceptionally cool. It was getting dark and as I sat there I realized I had to walk out of the woods in the dark. Bears don't scare me as they are mostly scavengers, coyotes are a pack item and they howl on the run to kill. Wolves are similar. Cougars hunt solo and, being cats, sneak up on their prey and jump them. When I realized this I couldn't get the thought out of my mind that I was beung hunted. I left the woods before darkness.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Agreed DanO. Mountain lions are the worst when it comes to that stuff.

[Panoptes]

Pumas rule!

They are still hanging around the edges of Orange County. We routinely camp in a rural outskirts OC county campground that has the latest cougar sightings in and around the area posted at check in as a WARNING! Many times the sightings are within a weeks time.

It's their land and I respect them bcz of what Dano posted. They have been known to kill and maim unsuspecting slackers at times in them there hills above us in the OC.

[FVD]

There was a death of the week on Six Feet Under one time from a cougar attack.

[froot loops]

You guys got me interested so I spent some time on google researching cougars, but so far I haven't seen anything you guys are talking about. I'll keep in looking though.

[Tony G]

[Panoptes]

This mauling happened years ago in the campground we use:

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-22/news/mn-48511_1_lion-attacks

This gruesome one in more recent years in OC:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mountain-lion-attacks-kill-1-injure-1-Orange-2814215.php

This capture was made a few months back in the same area:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/07/mountain-lion-orange-county-park.html

This video is of that same puma from the story just above.....this is an oft used regional park

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLyY3wvM7hA&sns=em"]Coyote drives off Mountain Lion - YouTube[/ame]

[DanO]

"You guys go time interested so I spent some time on google researching cougars, but so far I haven't seen anything you guys are talking about. I'll keep in looking though."
---------------------------There's a jest in there somewhere, right?