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Very true and the further north you go on the east coast the bigger they get. Three of them killed a 19 year old girl in a park in Canada a year or so ago. She was an up and coming folk singer and seemed to have a promising career ahead of her. Other hikers came to her rescue but it was too late.
They are a pain in the rear here in North Georgia but at least we don't have them the size of what you guys have to deal with up north. They are getting bolder in our area but not to the point of attacking people yet...especially a young woman.
Do a Google search on the attack if you would like to find out more details. It's tragic, but I think people in the North East should be very aware of.
You know the "professional" wildlife people in this state told us many years ago now that there weren't any coyote in this state, funny that there is now no closed season on them, and we can now hunt them at night during certain months. I forgot what they said when someone dropped a few carcasses and sent the pictures to the papers ;-) .
We have those same wildlife professionals here saying that about Mountain Lions now. Some people took pics of a mother and two cubs in a freaking trailer park in Chattanooga and the TNWR officer was interviewed and said that it looked like a large house cat to him. Now the people on the trailer park were absolute idiots because they were feeding it pizza but the wildlife officer is just insulting everyone intelligence when he said it was a house cat. There was NO doubt that the cat in the pics was a Mountian Lion and there have been more and more sightings but they still deny it.
I have been told that they say things like that to cover for the animals for fear that people would hunt them down and kill them. That may actually be true, but I think the public should be aware of any wildlife that could potentially be dangerous. I do think they should be protected but not at the expense of human safety and not to the point of where the populations grow to pest status such as has happened with coyotes.
Very true and the further north you go on the east coast the bigger they get. Three of them killed a 19 year old girl in a park in Canada a year or so ago. She was an up and coming folk singer and seemed to have a promising career ahead of her. Other hikers came to her rescue but it was too late.
They are a pain in the rear here in North Georgia but at least we don't have them the size of what you guys have to deal with up north. They are getting bolder in our area but not to the point of attacking people yet...especially a young woman.
Do a Google search on the attack if you would like to find out more details. It's tragic, but I think people in the North East should be very aware of.
You know the "professional" wildlife people in this state told us many years ago now that there weren't any coyote in this state, funny that there is now no closed season on them, and we can now hunt them at night during certain months. I forgot what they said when someone dropped a few carcasses and sent the pictures to the papers ;-) .
We have those same wildlife professionals here saying that about Mountain Lions now. Some people took pics of a mother and two cubs in a freaking trailer park in Chattanooga and the TNWR officer was interviewed and said that it looked like a large house cat to him. Now the people on the trailer park were absolute idiots because they were feeding it pizza but the wildlife officer is just insulting everyone intelligence when he said it was a house cat. There was NO doubt that the cat in the pics was a Mountian Lion and there have been more and more sightings but they still deny it.
I have been told that they say things like that to cover for the animals for fear that people would hunt them down and kill them. That may actually be true, but I think the public should be aware of any wildlife that could potentially be dangerous. I do think they should be protected but not at the expense of human safety and not to the point of where the populations grow to pest status such as has happened with coyotes.
