Comments on: Coppers Cap (Another) Cornered Cougar

By: JIMV

JIMV — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:12:06 +0000

Boisetaxpayer..I can recommend a great book on the Boulder issue, “The Beast in the Garden” by David Baron. It almost reads like a novel, goes into each sighting and attack leading to the deaths, and what was going on in the town at the time. The Denver Post wrote about it “Take Peter Benchley’s best selling ‘Jaws’, move it to the Colorado Front Range, add a group of nature loving citizens and you have ‘The Beast in the Garden’.

http://www.amazon.com/Beast-Garden-Predators-Suburban-America/dp/0393326349/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317233504&sr=1-2

By: boisetaxpayer

boisetaxpayer — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:47:23 +0000

an interesting statistic from the City of Boulder website regarding mountain lions:
“There has been an average of 0.2 annual human deaths in all of North America from mountain lions between 1900 and 2007. This number is very low compared to annual deaths from black widow spiders (1.4 between 1950-1989), domestic dogs (16 between 1979-1998) and car crashes (45,000 between 1980-2005).”

Save the lions, beware of spiders and puppies, ban all vehicles!

By: boisetaxpayer

boisetaxpayer — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:34:05 +0000

JIMV –
Boulder did nothing but build out into cat territory, that was the reason. It would be prudent of government when they are planning remote subdivisions etc to analyze this risk to minimize impact to people and cats alike.

By: JIMV

JIMV — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:48:25 +0000

I really like cats but I like the idea of Junior becoming cat food less. Boulder had a similar problem and refused to acknowledge it until a few folk had been attacked and one killed.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:45:46 +0000

SueSue, They like to sneek up from behind and jump on the upper body, bite the head and neck. They hate dogs because they can’t sneek up on a nose like that. Several dogs and they’ll head up a tree.

By: SueSue

SueSue — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:01:05 +0000

I’ve seen two on Grimes Creek in the past 3 weeks scavaging the trash (attractant) the campers left behind. Mmm… when the trash runs out and the hunger sets in dinner of humans and dogs are the next best thing.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:20:02 +0000

Wasn’t a young boy mauled by a Cougar in the Robie Creek community 10 or so years ago?

EDITOR NOTE–You are correct, but if memory serves (sometimes it doesn’t) that cat was a captive wild critter.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:29:18 +0000

Man, just like ol’yeller. Sad tale.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:52:30 +0000

Paul you are right…it is time to start thinning the population. Send them back to Cal where they came from.

By: boisetaxpayer

boisetaxpayer — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:46:46 +0000

I’m an outdoorsman and a hunter, not a tree hugger by any means. We can’t continue to blame Idaho’s wildlife for ill planned subdivisions or people constantly encroaching on wild habitat. The problem isn’t the wildlife, it’s people.