OT: Eastern cougars removed from endangered list and implications.....

[LafayetteBear]

I was sitting at my desk eight days ago when I felt an itch on my right bicep. I pulled up my sleeve and, lo and behold, a tick had somehow gotten onto my bicep and had commenced to dig into it. I pulled it out and disposed ot it. There was a small (1/2") pink circle of slightly inflamed tissue around the spot where the tick had been. It has itched a bit since then, but no other symptoms. I can't for the life of me figure out how that tick got onto my arm. We don't have any pets at the moment, and I have not been working out in our yard or otherwise communing with nature. I'm glad I found it early.

 

[step.eng69]

Why not just educate the deer

WE ARE........

 

[Nitt1300]

I think we should bring back velociraptors

 

[Limestone_Lion]

I was sitting at my desk eight days ago when I felt an itch on my right bicep. I pulled up my sleeve and, lo and behold, a tick had somehow gotten onto my bicep and had commenced to dig into it. I pulled it out and disposed ot it. There was a small (1/2") pink circle of slightly inflamed tissue around the spot where the tick had been. It has itched a bit since then, but no other symptoms. I can't for the life of me figure out how that tick got onto my arm. We don't have any pets at the moment, and I have not been working out in our yard or otherwise communing with nature. I'm glad I found it early.

Keep a close eye on it. I have Lyme. It hit me like a semi truck. I woke up one morning with the inability to turn my head, bend at the waist, and it hurt like hell to walk. A day later I got Bells Palsy. Ended up in the ER (I knew it was Lyme after the Bells Palsy) to get started on Antibiotics immediately. The stiffness went away after 3 days, and the Bells Palsy stopped after approx 2 weeks. It took me getting Bells Palsy before I noticed the Bullseye on my right side (thanks to my now wife).

 

[UncleLar]

“No confirmed sightings” by wildlife officials does not mean there have been no sightings by individuals. Because there have been.

What I want to know is who's destroying all those mountain lion carcasses, since no one has ever found one? Is there a mountain lion graveyard somewhere that they all go to to die, like the fabled elephant graveyards in Africa? And why are Pennsylvania mountain lions so much smarter than Florida ones? 31 Florida panthers were struck and killed by cars in 2016 alone (that's estimated to be between 15%-25% of the population), yet nobody has hit one in Pennsylvania in the last 50+ years. Have any answers?

 

[Cosmos]

I think what separates the Mountain Lion from the Black Bear is that a Mountain Lions can and will kill large game and if given the chance would attack and kill humans. When I lived in Southern California 1987-1992 there were at least three attacks east of the Mission Viejo area. Even though the attacks were not fatal the individuals were seriously hurt and disfigured. I fully realized that developers encroached on their natural habitat by building homes. All I'm saying is that reintroducing them to an area remotely close to homes can be dangerous.

I've seen the reports. I think if given a choice a cougar would attack natural prey over domestic animals and humans. If pickings are slim then it attacks humans. The incidents to which you refer includes people who were mountain biking. a cat could mistake such a person for a deer. At least that's the theory.

 

[Cosmos]

What I want to know is who's destroying all those mountain lion carcasses, since no one has ever found one? Is there a mountain lion graveyard somewhere that they all go to to die, like the fabled elephant graveyards in Africa? And why are Pennsylvania mountain lions so much smarter than Florida ones? 31 Florida panthers were struck and killed by cars in 2016 alone (that's estimated to be between 15%-25% of the population), yet nobody has hit one in Pennsylvania in the last 50+ years. Have any answers?

I'm like you, Lar. Produce the corps. That's how I approach Big Foot. Anyway with respect to the Florida Panther perhaps it's due to encroachment into human habitat. After all, FL is growing.

 

[Carl Spackler]

The Center for Biological Diversity is a liberal group that is pretty much anti-hunting. A large cougar population would seriously hurt deer hunting in Pa. and the Center would love that. We have too dense deer populations in some suburban areas where hunting is limited, but we don't want lions there. The deer herd in the mountainous wild areas is just now recovering from a modern low that bottomed out around 2004-2012. Some areas had populations under 10 deer per sq. mile. As for ticks, I haven't seen any correlation with deer numbers. We had few ticks in the 60s, 70s and 80s when the mountain deer herds were overly large, then tick numbers exploded during the lean years.

While a former deer hunter (successful) I am far more concerned with a mountain Lion, Nittany or not, confronting me, my children or grandchildren while walking in the woods. Bears are not as aggressive but lions hunt from behind, jumping on and grabbing the neck in their jaws to paralyze the prey, then eat them alive or dead. Pretty gruesome for a human. No, keep them where they are now. Allow hunting to depopulate the herd when necessary. Read about Vancouver Island, BC cougar attacks or those in western states. Not that uncommon.

 

[Cletus11]

What I want to know is who's destroying all those mountain lion carcasses, since no one has ever found one? Is there a mountain lion graveyard somewhere that they all go to to die, like the fabled elephant graveyards in Africa? And why are Pennsylvania mountain lions so much smarter than Florida ones? 31 Florida panthers were struck and killed by cars in 2016 alone (that's estimated to be between 15%-25% of the population), yet nobody has hit one in Pennsylvania in the last 50+ years. Have any answers?

or a video on a game camera as there are thousands of them in the woods also and if somebody had a picture or video of a mountain lion, it would be all over the internet.

 

[TheGLOV]

Itty bitty kitty!




Now, what harm could possibly come to little children walking to their bus stop or playing in their yard in a rural area?

 

[RU31trap]

Itty bitty kitty!




Now, what harm could possibly come to little children walking to their bus stop or playing in their yard in a rural area?

That must be a 180lbs Cougar. Able to kill an adult wild Mustang, Moose, Elk or Bison.