Posted by Heavy.Metal.Spook Has anyone here encountered a mountain lion? |
Posted by 2Xplorations I have seen their sign many times. My neighbors and my wife have seen them but amazingly I have not as much time as I spend outdoors, I think theyre avoiding me! |
Posted by Dee Ashley I went white water rafting several years ago and our guides told us that the general rule is that if you see a mountain lion out there, it is the last thing you will ever see. They meant it as a sort of warning that those mountain lions were skilled enough to trail you for days and you'd never know it and that they didn't make themselves known unless you were about to be dinner. Fortunately, mountain lion attacks (on humans) are exceedingly rare - even out there in the Canadian glaciers. I have not personally seen a mountain lion out in the wild, but I did see this massive bobcat in my mom's back yard. We noticed each other at about the same time and he didn't even flinch. Hell, he was staring at me so hard, for a moment I thought he might actually get aggressive. Luckily, that didn't happen, but he was the largest bobcat I've ever seen - he would've come up to my hips had he been standing next to me and I'm pretty tall. I managed to snap a shot of him, but all I had was a shitty phone camera, unfortunately: https://live.staticflickr.com/6188/6064723080_151f21410f_z.jpg |
Posted by Dee Ashley I went white water rafting several years ago and our guides told us that the general rule is that if you see a mountain lion out there, it is the last thing you will ever see. They meant it as a sort of warning that those mountain lions were skilled enough to trail you for days and you'd never know it and that they didn't make themselves known unless you were about to be dinner. Fortunately, mountain lion attacks (on humans) are exceedingly rare - even out there in the Canadian glaciers. I have not personally seen a mountain lion out in the wild, but I did see this massive bobcat in my mom's back yard. We noticed each other at about the same time and he didn't even flinch. Hell, he was staring at me so hard, for a moment I thought he might actually get aggressive. Luckily, that didn't happen, but he was the largest bobcat I've ever seen - he would've come up to my hips had he been standing next to me and I'm pretty tall. I managed to snap a shot of him, but all I had was a shitty phone camera, unfortunately: https://live.staticflickr.com/6188/6064723080_151f21410f_z.jpg |
“ I'm facing away from my friend while setting up my tripod. I hear dogs and assume they are behind a fence on the neighboring property because my friend has said nothing. I turn around and there are five very large dogs surrounding her and she is standing, frozen. I have no clue how to handle this one, so I slowly extended my tripod and walked in her direction. I didn't look at the dogs directly, but held that damn tripod like a baseball bat while she and I backed away. Only one of the five dogs directed their attention at me the entire time. They barked, growled, and snarled, but did not attack. As soon as we crossed what seemed to be an imaginary boundary, all five dogs completely lost interest - unless we stopped walking away, then one or two of them would begin a low warning growl and their attention would refocus on us. Needless to say, we did not go back. This was my first issue with dogs, but I've always known that they can be a real threat. Fortunately, we both made it out alive and unscathed. Just rattled.‘ |
Posted by ThePilotGuy I've had a dog and been around dogs since I was little as well. I've never seen a dog be so friendly with people and so aggressive to another dog at the same time. |
Posted by 2Xplorations Most dog pets will associate people as friendlies and other dogs as competition. Commercial guard dogs are the exception they view all trespassers and strangers as threats and will bark or attack but its not for "no reason" they have a good reason and its instinct and training. Its funny how little 15lb ankle biters will go nuts and get aggressive when confronted by a much larger and quite obviously much more lethal dog, I think they have an instinct to run a bluff if they recognize they are out classed. Stray i.e. "loose dogs" are a crap shoot some may get aggressive while others may not. Go ahead, roll the dice. |
Posted by blackhawk My friend had big rescue mutt, Jimbo. Nicest dog on the planet until he saw/heard a black, motorcycle or another dog in that order. He go batshit crazy. Oddly Chet my friend's sister's husband rode a loud Bultaco dirt bike which he would grudgingly ignore. That's canine tolerance... he really hated bikes. However in town Jimbo* could be an embarrassment for more reasons than one *his name had no racist intent that I'm aware of. |
Posted by 2Xplorations Bultacos made me angry too, freaking spainard two stroke carburetors I rode a few never owned one they ran pretty strong, when they ran LOL You and I are the only ones here old enough to have ridden a Bultaco I bet Their trials bikes were not so bad because they didn't try to over carburete them, good suspension and a heavy flywheel |
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