DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Mountain lion captured inside Irvine building. “People inside that building were able to scramble to another floor, but the mountain lion had no way of leaving, and a veterinarian was able to get close enough to tranquilize him. . . . Over the weekend, a mountain lion was spotted taking a swim in Lake Mission Viejo after spending some time outside a nearby home. It wasn’t clear if it was the same cougar, but it’s possible given the proximity and timing.”
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DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: And just like that, liberals hated mountain lions.
The Mountain Lion Foundation sides with the urbanizers, tweeting, “While Woodside abuts and contains mountain lion habitat, a blanket prohibition against adding an additional unit on an already developed parcel anywhere in the town is neither required by the California Endangered Species Act, nor contributing to the protection of mountain lions.”
That tells me the Mountain Lion Foundation is not about mountain lions at all.
Matt Haney, one of the San Francisco Supervisors, tweeted, “The entire wealthy suburb of Woodside is claiming to be a protected mountain lion habitat to skirt state law allowing fourplexes. What shameless ridiculousness.”
Haney’s San Francisco allows people to poop in the street. Woodside doesn’t want that. I hope some Trump-appointed federal judge allows Woodside to stop this urbanization of a habitat for billionaires.
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Related: Feral hogs — they’re not just for Texas anymore! The Rampaging Pigs of the San Francisco Bay Area. A proposed California law would make it easier to hunt feral swine, the voracious “super invaders” that are the bane of some East Bay suburbs.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Basta! Romans say enough to invasion of wild boars in city.
They’re wily and dangerous, but delicious.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Wyoming to ask US to lift Yellowstone grizzly protections. “Wyoming will ask the federal government to remove its protections for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region and permit the region’s three states to manage and potentially allow hunting of the big bruins in certain areas, Gov. Mark Gordon said Thursday. . . . The Fish and Wildlife Service considers Yellowstone’s grizzlies ‘biologically recovered.’ The Yellowstone region’s population has rebounded from about 100 in 1975, when they were first listed, to as many as 1,000 today. As they’ve recovered in number, the bears have been showing up ever farther and more frequently away from their core habitat in and near Yellowstone National Park.”
The good news is that if people shoot at them now and then, they’ll become much more shy of people.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Coyote tried to drag off 2-year-old girl in Arlington, attacked another: Same animal suspected in both attacks, police say.
Two toddlers were attacked by a coyote in separate incidents in Arlington, officials say.
The first attack was reported at about 5:40 p.m. Sunday when a 2-year-old girl in her Epping Street yard was approached, bitten on the back and dragged by a coyote.
About 10 minutes later another 2-year-old female was approached by the coyote in her yard in Summer Hill Circle and scratched. . . .
Arlington is about 7 miles northwest of Boston.
Officials believe that the same coyote was involved in both incidents. They are now trying to locate the coyote.
Last month a 5-year-old boy was playing in a sandbox on Cutler Hill Road in Arlington when he was bitten by a coyote.
See, they’re not afraid of people because nobody shoots them.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear runs into Tennessee restaurant, then meanders along the sidewalk beside visitors. “At the time, officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency had reminded people that Gatlinburg is part of the bears’ natural habitat and roaming area.”
If you shot every bear that crossed the Gatlinburg city limits, within a few years the bears wouldn’t do that anymore. Deer know exactly where they can be hunted, and bears are smarter than deer.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Cougar rattles neighborhood after breaking into Eastern Washington home. “Ephrata Police said that [the] cougar ended up clawing through a screen door and entered a resident’s house. The homeowners inside quickly tranquilized it, but the cougar continued, running into the kitchen and climbing up the sink to try jumping out the window. They tranquilized the cougar again and it finally went to sleep.”
Personally, I don’t keep tranquilizer darts handy.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bears scavenge trash cans at Gatlinburg gas station.
To be fair, they probably came looking for gas and then just decided to try to salvage the trip.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Four wild animals that are thriving in cities.
I think the problem is that nobody shoots them anymore.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Do Cougars Roam the Smoky Mountains? Conventional wisdom declared the big cats extinct long ago. But a number of recent sightings in Tennessee reveals they may be returning—or never left. When I was a teenager we saw footprints that looked too big to be a bobcat, and one of the adults hiking with us said they were cougar prints. A lot of people around here say that some survived in the mountains.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Utah Hiker Stalked by Wild Cougar for 6 Min.
A firearm would be helpful in this situation.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear spotted in South Knoxville neighborhood.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE. Sheriff: Authorities looking for tiger — no, really — after sighting in Knoxville. Tiger shows up at my house, he’s a rug.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Black bear spotted near Downtown Knoxville. “This comes a few days after Knoxville Police said a bear sighting was confirmed in Fountain City.”
They feel safe coming into town around people because nobody shoots them when they do.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Cougar Attacks Two Bicyclists in Washington State, Killing One.
Predators should be afraid of people. What makes predators afraid of people is being shot when they encounter people.
UPDATE: Somebody sent me this story, and I noticed the May 20 date, but not the 2018 part. Still, the point stands.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear Casually Opens Door and Strolls into Tahoe CHP Facility. I love the picture; it’s like he’s trying to pretend he’s human by walking on his hind legs to blend in. And yeah, this isn’t a new story, but I just saw it.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear Found Walking Around University of Tennessee Campus. This is not the first time that’s happened.