re: #185 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Anyone worrying about cougar attacks who doesn’t work as raw-meat-and-aniseed-carrier in Yosemite is a fucking moron. You have a much better chance of being killed by cows.

Depends on job and where you are. My brother-in-law raises horses on a small spread in the Yampa Valley. Up and about before dawn in an areas with lots of wildlife, cows, etc.

And he has lost foals to cougar attacks. Which is why he doesn’t like them. But he is also well educated and open minded enough to understand that he is sharing the area with them and there are precautions to take.

His main ire from his close encounter with one is with the local sheriff’s office and the BLM. The latter denies (or at least denied at the time) that there are mountain lions in that section of the Yampa Valley. The former failed to notify anyone in the area for over 24 hours after someone reported hitting a cougar with a car on US-40 nearby. Said injured cougar was discovered hiding out in a irrigation ditch culvert 40’ from my brother-in-law’s barn.