There is a freaking MOUNTAIN LION

tracieanchris · January 2013

roaming around my town right now. this can't be real.

greeneyed_bride · January 2013

That's scary! But is it weird that I would make sure to have my camera handy, just in case it walked past?

nikip6454 · January 2013

A what? I am on mobile and curious!

gimmietimmies · January 2013

Eh, unless you look like a small dog or cat or startle it, you're fine. I guess I don't flip out because we frequently get cougars.

RondackHiker · January 2013

That is awesome!

Arnegard · January 2013

nikip6454:
A what? I am on mobile and curious!

Mountain Lion.

quidditchcapn1120 · January 2013

Where are you from? While it would probably would make the news, it's not that uncommon where I'm from.

If you find yourself in the presence of one, don't run. Make yourself look larger. Don't bend over (it makes you look like prey).

It is nerve wracking though. I hope they are able to find it soon!

tracieanchris · January 2013

Yeah, I just googled it and it said that they dont really care about people, they just want to eat deer. I guess its NBD. It just seems very out of the ordinary and scary.

tracieanchris · January 2013

quidditchcapn1120:
Where are you from? While it would probably would make the news, it's not that uncommon where I'm from.
If you find yourself in the presence of one, don't run. Make yourself look larger. Don't bend over (it makes you look like prey).
It is nerve wracking though. I hope they are able to find it soon!

Northern Illinois. I have the police scanner on my FB and someone called the cops claiming they saw one.

Littledeer84 · January 2013

Mountain lions scare me! Where I am from there are signs on the trails that say "You are in mountain lion country, be alert." There were times when I was walking by myself where I turned back.

Spapeggy · January 2013

My fil killed one in new mexico. We ate it and it was some of the best meat I've ever eatin! Mmmmmmmm! Now it's nicely stuffed on a big mantle in his office

nanabanana06 · January 2013

When I lived out in BFE we would get notices of mountain lion sightings all the time. It was fun walking home from school. Alone. On a private road. With no visible houses anywhere.

gimmietimmies · January 2013

GhostMonkey:

gimmietimmies:
Eh, unless you look like a small dog or cat or startle it, you're fine. I guess I don't flip out because we frequently get cougars.
This. I find it laughable that it's newsworthy here. They have been here forever.

It's kinda funny. We had one make the news, only because it wandered into someone's garage and fell asleep (it was cold out). Owner came in and scared the crap out of it, he opened the door and cat ran like hell. We get lots because deer hang out here all the time.

nanabanana06 · January 2013

My old high school has been put under lock down twice due to a bear walking around school campus. Wouldn't of been a huge deal if 1/3 of the school wasn't in portables.

nancy30005 · January 2013

Whoa.

I am not sure to be jealous or thankful for y'alls wildlife.
How farking cool/scary! LOL
I love that shiit.

We have chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, birds, and deer.

Flucking little cuties.

argonne · January 2013

Eh. We get them down in town every once in a while. Just don't let your LO roam around outside. You should be fine.

gimmietimmies · January 2013

Nana_Osaki06:
My old high school has been put under lock down twice due to a bear walking around school campus. Wouldn't of been a huge deal if 1/3 of the school wasn't in portables.

lol, we had that too. More when we lived up north, but only a few out here. Badgers were kinda fun, in a cranky rip you apart sorta way. I've had an encounter with one. Hmmm, we also have elk, skunks, coyotes, bull snakes, rattle snakes, and lots of big birds. I love spring when the bald eagles are migrating north.

Wufroggy79 · January 2013

A mountain lion would freak me out. <------- city girl.

klondikebar · January 2013

We don't get anything lie cougars or mountain lions here. I don't live in the city, but it'd freak me out if one was right outside my house.

I remember walking outside in the middle of a bright sunny day to find a dazed, swaying raccoon sitting on his hind legs staring at me from a few feet away. I promptly went back inside.

NerdyMama2 · January 2013

Ah! I'd be freaked out!

citychicks · January 2013

gimmietimmies:
Eh, unless you look like a small dog or cat or startle it, you're fine. I guess I don't flip out because we frequently get cougars.

This.

gimmietimmies · January 2013

-auntie-:
nancy30005:

Whoa.

I am not sure to be jealous or thankful for y'alls wildlife.
How farking cool/scary! LOL
I love that shiit.

We have chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, birds, and deer.

Flucking little cuties.

Deer are the most dangerous animals in America in terms of ER visits.

That doesn't surprise me. Most people in our area have hit them on the highway, me included.

CleopatraBlue · January 2013

Spapeggy:
My fil killed one in new mexico. We ate it and it was some of the best meat I've ever eatin! Mmmmmmmm! Now it's nicely stuffed on a big mantle in his office

This makes me sad.

nyki06 · January 2013

We get them here. I grew up in rural Northern Minnesota and one time someone in the metro area decided that they wanted a baby tiger. Once it got too big they let it "free" in my home town, so we had a tiger roaming around for weeks. Every time we went to the bus I thought that I was going to get eaten by a tiger. That was freakin' scary.

Snapdragon750 · January 2013

Hehe! Cool. They're afraid of people though; they're the kind of animal that if you see one you should just shout at it and open up your jacket to look big and they'll run away. Just put your dog and cat inside.

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