View Single Post
Old 12-29-2008, 02:04 PM   #54
lilac_jive
Grand Sorcerer
lilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud oflilac_jive has much to be proud of
 
lilac_jive's Avatar
 
Posts: 5,870
Karma: 27376
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Device: PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wetdogeared View Post
We often have reports of mountain lion sitings and every year there are a few people attacked by them, some even killed. They come down from the foothills/mountains looking for food.

A few years back, one was caught in the underground parkade of the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria.

Black bears are more of a problem here though. They wake up hungry, go looking in garbage and fruit trees in the back yards. The animal services people try to capture them then truck them up to some far off place and release them (if they can).

I'm glad the grizzlies are a few hundred miles north or further inland from where we are on the coast. I'm sure everyone has seen the videos of them catching salmon when they return to spawn. There are protected areas for the Grizzlies, but I think the government may still issue a few
licenses each year to those trophy hunters.
I think I saw that on NAtGeos show "Hunter & Hunted." Some island where a whole bunch of people got eaten by mountian lions.

Would not like to go out that way...
lilac_jive is offline   Reply With Quote