Hi Folks, I think this off-topic thread has run its course. Regards, Art
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:57 AM, <geo...@aol.com> wrote: > > Sterling>>I make the perfect expert for this dispute because I > am not a frontiersman and know nothing about lions, > cougars, pards, and whatnot. Knowing nothing, I > was forced to GoogleStorm the question of "mountain > lion" shoe-size.<< > > Well after going over what Sterling dug up, it would seem that what eric > seen in florida is within the realm of possibility. I sure would love to > have found the photos that were taken of the two mountain lions killed at my > father in laws place. I looked high and low. The big interest in those > photos were the size of its head and front paws compared to my father in laws > hands. Perhaps the furry part on its paws made it look larger than the foot > print producing pads? During that period (In the late 1980's and early > 1990's), there was an incident about 2 miles from my in laws place where a > mountain lion swatted the butt of a 4 year old kid at Cuyamaca State Park > while > camping. the lion came right into camp and attacked the kid. This was all > caught on video. A park ranger shot and killed it. within a year or two of > this, a mountain lion killed a woman hiker within cuyamaca Park. I can't > remember if this one was killed or not. We had a woman friend of ours who was > hiking in Cuyamaca that suddenly had a lion appear on the trail about ten > feet from her. She did a series of things that did no good...such as holler > at it, blow a loud whistle and wave her arms. She said the lion just sat > there looking at her. Finally out of desperation she hit it in the head with > her walking stick and it turned and trotted off. While living in Texas many > years ago, I often heard stories about mountain lion attacks or the threat > of them, but never heard of one caught or killed there. I'm sure they were > around, but I didn't feel threatened. They probably had plenty of food > around to be much of a threat to humans. > George Zay > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list