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   On 8/9/2025 3:15 PM, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Sat, 09 Aug 2025 03:13:15 -0700, chine.bleu wrote:   
   >   
   >> Mountain lions eat deer, and no one mourns the deer. We do not have deer   
   >> herd population bombs spilling onto neighbourhoods. Like coyotes,   
   >> mountain lions mostly avoid human. They can kill humans, so when they   
   >> attack hikers or come out of the hills into neighbourhoods, they are   
   >> killed. But meetings are rare, so we usually leave them alone up in the   
   >> hills.   
   >   
   > The last mountain lion fatality here was in '89 when a cat attacked a 5   
   > year old playing in his yard. Unfortunately the child fit the prey   
   > profile. I've run into cats several times but I don't fit the profile of   
   > fleeing prey like a jogger or biker might.   
      
      
   I am pretty sure a mountain lion killed a doe in my neighbors front yard   
   across the street about 10 years ago and dragged it uphill into some bushes.   
      
   We had been out of town several days and when I came home and was   
   cutting grass I smelled it and found it there.  Neighbor said he knew   
   and tried to get the highway dept. to remove it but they wouldn't   
   because it was not close to the road so he later had to do it himself.   
      
   I live on a cul-de-sac street and a car could not have done it.  Besides   
   there were signs it was killed on the front lawn and dragged into the   
   bushes.   
      
   We do not live in the wilds but the cougar had been seen roaming around   
   here and in nearby state park.   
      
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