Mountain Lion sighting in Norco, not a joke.

[horsejody]

I've never understood why some people act like mountain lions are mythological creatures. A lot of people act like a person said they saw bigfoot when they say they spotted a mountain lion. I live near two rivers. I guarantee you they are around.

 

[onthespot]

Norco Bluffs is adjacent to a significant river and wildlife preserve that goes for many miles in both directions. The reason the sighting is significant in Norco is because that town is "dedicated to the animal keeping lifestyle" and nearly every property has more livestock and pets per square foot than probably any town in the United States of America. It is a teeming smorgasbord of 24hr/day fresh food for any carnivore of any size, and also for lagomorphs, herbivores, omnivores. There are wild pigs in the river bottom, racoons, possums, bobcats. I know of a civilan couple in the city that has a full grown caracal they keep in a bedroom upstairs, unpermitted. They have a fully permitted falconry with eagles, falcons of all kinds from all around the world. They have tiny animals also verboten in that town. I used to have a wolf and a baboon, permitted. I am zoned for 300 chickens on a 10,000 sq foot lot, in addition to two horses, four dogs, and an undetermined number of cage birds. There is no noise ordinance and strict manure removal regulations, but if a mountain lion has taken to easy pickin's, he chose the right town to leech off of is all I can say. He will never starve to death until he is so old he can no longer walk or until he gets taken out.

 

[rosco]

Onthespot, i love that picture! says it all!
last month we were on a backpacking trip and ran across a mountain lion being eaten. whatever was carrying it along the trail, leaving a trail of blood, dropped it as we got close. To the Nay-sayers, i did something really stupid, i stopped and took a picture. the national park confirmed my cat to be a lion.

rosco!

 

[chixie]

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or super hungry

 

[chixie]

we have mountain lions here... I have seen one early one morning ...It crossed the road infront of my car...I live in the big thicket(an hour away from the louisiana border) and I have seen many pics from game cameras within a mile from my home... the big thicket game preserve is basically in my back yard... lots of critters in my backyard and i have never lost a bird or other livestock to any...I have lost them to dogs though...except my quail to snakes

 

[KinderKorner]

I haven't seen one myself. But even in Southern IL they are around. We have had several killed on the train tracks in the past few years. And our neighbors goat gotten eaten by one last year. Which worries me because I have a herd of goats, and no dog.

We also have bobcats a plenty here too.

My neighbor had several 60+ pound nubians killed and dragged off a month or so ago.

She thinks it was a coyote. But I think it was a lion. There is no way a 30 pound coyote could kill 3 60+ pound nubians, and carry them over a 4ft high electic fence. Not even a pack.

Not to mention everything was very clean... No blood. Just a half of a goat left. Canines are usually quite messy.

Lions are out there. They just aren't usually spotted.

 

[onthespot]

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BEING EATEN??? I would think a mountain lion would be the apex predator in your area. What else do you have, bear? That is the only other thing I could think of as higher and mightier than a mountain lion... YIKES, no matter what!!! Good thing you got back safe.

 

[rosco]

BEING EATEN??? I would think a mountain lion would be the apex predator in your area. What else do you have, bear? That is the only other thing I could think of as higher and mightier than a mountain lion... YIKES, no matter what!!! Good thing you got back safe.

here is the photo shot, Nov 12, 2009, in Big Bend National Park waaaay out on "outter mountain basin loop" trail." about 11.5miles i think.

the parks person and the usda person i emailed wrote that either the animal was injured and coyotes were at it or it was a juvenile male and had walked into a mature male's territory. i'm pretty sure it is the second case as a male is found in many photos a few miles away (google maps). plus, a lion is about the only animal out there that could drag another lion. the parks said there had never been an attack in that park (googling it gives a different story). also, farmers/ranchers with land around the border of a canyon here in the panhandle see lions slinking down into the palo duro canyon early in the AM.

get this, we camped ~0.5 miles away. i slept like a baby though under the stars. we'd canoed the rio grande for three days and jumped right on this trail and backpacked 12 miles out (a couple 1,000' up and then back down and out into the desert).
i shouldn't be posting this on your thread. here is a photo of where we camped the next morning. it was 0.5 miles from the confirmed lion carcass.

bad photo i know. but i was plum worn out

good thread!

 

[Fay at Frizzled Feathers]

ugh gives me chills , hopefully i never have to see one up close. The neighbors say they are getting worse around here but i have not seen any and i hope i dont.