Watch those mountain lions, Idaho folks!

[Rotnguns]

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/video-eagle-neighborhood-visited-by-a-mountain-lion-early-friday-morning-doorbell-camera-raw-wild-animal-lions/277-060de41e-71a1-48da-88d7-8dabe380e0f2

A few years back, a security cam at a junior high filmed a lion walking calmly down the main hall and out the door (i think it was near Grangeville).

This is the first year that the cap on mountain lions has been lifted. I'll have a lion tag during elk season, but without dogs, even seeing one is like hitting the lottery.

[Senko]

Getting to be as bad as the bay area back in CA. There was one asleep in a tree a block or two from an elementary school in Palo Alto and another in San Francisco spotted on a security camera walking down the driveway of Marc Benioff's house IIRC. There were others in the east bay, but these two come to mind as unlikely places.

[Rotnguns]

Getting to be as bad as the bay area back in CA. There was one asleep in a tree a block or two from an elementary school in Palo Alto and another in San Francisco spotted on a security camera walking down the driveway of Marc Benioff's house IIRC. There were others in the east bay, but these two come to mind as unlikely places.

Wow- I've read that there have been several attacks on bike riders and hikers in cali. Sounds like you have meaner lions

[Howie44]

Wow- I've read that there have been several attacks on bike riders and hikers in cali. Sounds like you have meaner lions

They're not meaner. It's been illegal to hunt them for decades in CA. They have no reason to to be afraid of humans for generations there because you go to jail if you hurt one even in self defense.....

[Senko]

Too lazy to search this AM, but didn't the head of CA's Fish and Game post a pic of himself with a mountain lion he had taken in ID on Facebook and ended up getting cancelled/resigning?

In some ways I'm sure it's easier for the wildlife to live near humans that won't hunt them once they adapt. The last couple of years we had wild turkeys in our front yard or walking down the street, many raccoons, skunks, possums. Many neighborhoods are plagued with out of control deer populations (ho harvesting).

I rarely see any of these where we live in ID with the exception of a pair of coyotes occasionally in the hayfield behind us.

[Rotnguns]

They're not meaner. It's been illegal to hunt them for decades in CA. They have no reason to to be afraid of humans for generations there because you go to jail if you hurt one even in self defense.....

Good heavens. Surprising they don't have the right to vote yet!

[covingtonhouse]

Too lazy to search this AM, but didn't the head of CA's Fish and Game post a pic of himself with a mountain lion he had taken in ID on Facebook and ended up getting cancelled/resigning?

In some ways I'm sure it's easier for the wildlife to live near humans that won't hunt them once they adapt. The last couple of years we had wild turkeys in our front yard or walking down the street, many raccoons, skunks, possums. Many neighborhoods are plagued with out of control deer populations (ho harvesting).

I rarely see any of these where we live in ID with the exception of a pair of coyotes occasionally in the hayfield behind us.

We've got a large flock of turkeys that run through our property grazing, twice sometimes three times a day. They really like it after the lawns have been mowed. I have my eye on one for later in fall

[CycloSteve]

I saw more Mountain Lion at our house in the Santa Cruz Mountains than I have ever seen up here in North Idaho. Thus, I am in agreement with Howie that the lack of hunting pressure makes the CA Lions more bold and the ID ones still having a healthy fear and aversion of us two-legged threats. I am more concerned about disturbing a mama Moose at our place than running into a Mountain Lion.

[Rotnguns]

Cougar beats the wee out of a hunter before being put down with a 9:

https://shoshonenewspress.com/news/2021/mar/16/close-call-big-cat/