Wild animals....

KosmicJelli
KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
It just hit me how friggen deep in the boonies I live... this is kinda scary for a girl from the Chicago burbs...


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and i was worried about racoons in the garbage....
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  • pjtaper
    pjtaper Posts: 3,020
    umm, yeah, I'd be scared too, then I would grab my gun and what I could carry out to my car, and drive far far away!
    After typing that, I looked and saw you live in Hayward, WI?!?!?!?!?
    What the HELL? Where is that, and why is there a lion at your door? I grew up just north of Milwaukee, never seen anything like that!
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    whoa!!! those fuckers are dangerous......stay far away.....:eek:
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    KosmicJelli wrote:
    It just hit me how friggen deep in the boonies I live... this is kinda scary for a girl from the Chicago burbs...


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    and i was worried about racoons in the garbage....
    Thats in Wisconsin????
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    pjtaper wrote:
    umm, yeah, I'd be scared too, then I would grab my gun and what I could carry out to my car, and drive far far away!
    After typing that, I looked and saw you live in Hayward, WI?!?!?!?!?
    What the HELL? Where is that, and why is there a lion at your door? I grew up just north of Milwaukee, never seen anything like that!


    about an hour south of lake superior...


    but living in chicago/milwaukee area... crackheads more dangerous
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Interesting.....don't know what the status of that species is in Wisconsin. If you were further east or south, I would suspect that it was an escaped pet. You should contact the state fish & wildlife division. If it is an escaped pet, it should be captured and placed in a big cat rehab site. BTW as someone earlier posted, they are a dangerous animal.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Thats in Wisconsin????

    yes.. in wisconsin... just a scare tactic to keep tourist away...j/k
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    pjtaper wrote:
    umm, yeah, I'd be scared too, then I would grab my gun and what I could carry out to my car, and drive far far away!
    After typing that, I looked and saw you live in Hayward, WI?!?!?!?!?
    What the HELL? Where is that, and why is there a lion at your door? I grew up just north of Milwaukee, never seen anything like that!
    No way! I would think that is cool as hell! Just keep a baseball bat handy and life would go on..
  • pjtaper
    pjtaper Posts: 3,020
    Everyone knows they are dangerous... I also would not feel safe with that on the other side of my regular sliding glass door, I hope you have some thick zoo glass on your house.
    wtf, I used to camp/hike/fish up by lake superior, I didn't know there were lions there... that is a big cat!!!
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    KosmicJelli wrote:
    yes.. in wisconsin... just a scare tactic to keep tourist away...j/k
    Wild life has been making a comeback, which is a good thing. Coyotes have been making a comeback around Chicago. When I was a kid they were unheard of around here.
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    actually a cougar... we have them... what scary reported sitings have been all over...

    it used to be that way for black bears a few years back a few sitings... but now you see them all the time.... I hope DNR keeps population under control...
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Wild life has been making a comeback, which is a good thing. Coyotes have been making a comeback around Chicago. When I was a kid they were unheard of around here.


    I know... deer too... One time driving home back from Wisconsin didnt see one deer run across the road during their "rutting" season... until i got 1 mile from my old house...
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    KosmicJelli wrote:
    actually a cougar... we have them... what scary reported sitings have been all over...

    it used to be that way for black bears a few years back a few sitings... but now you see them all the time.... I hope DNR keeps population under control...
    Interesting....that they are making a comeback in that area. It's also interesting that it came upon the porch and was not flushed by you and the camera....that's one of the reasons that I suspected escaped pet so quickly. Do you feed any pets outdoors?? Dangerous, yes, but will generally leave humans alone. I know folks who might trade in their right nut for such a sighting. Great job catching some snapshots.

    Cougar=Puma=Catamount=Mountain Lion...if I remember right, it has even more common names.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    KosmicJelli wrote:
    I know... deer too... One time driving home back from Wisconsin didnt see one deer during their "rutting" season... until i got 1 mile from my old house...
    Well, deer around where I grew up were always a problem because of lack of predators. I lived a few minutes from the loop and almost got mauled by a buck a few times walking to the bus stop. More predators are needed to keep the population under control. Mountains lions used to naturally hunt around here a hundred years ago, but man killed them off.

    I say embrace nature! If you get eaten, atleast it was for a good cause! :D
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Gawd, Americans are such pansies when it comes to wildlife. Of course, I spent last weekend deep in the woods in a snow cave, so animals don't frighten me. You could have that cat living in your spare bedroom and you would still have a greater chance of being injured, robbed, raped, or killed by some random human being.
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  • tybird
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    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Wild life has been making a comeback, which is a good thing. Coyotes have been making a comeback around Chicago. When I was a kid they were unheard of around here.
    Coyotes have been moving east and north for a couple of decades.....entered the Southeast back in the 1980's and have made it, on their own, all the way to the Smoky Mountains National Park in recent years. The Park Service even had to decide whether to remove them from the park or let them be......because they arrived on their own with direct human intervention, they are going to be allowed to stay.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • KosmicJelli
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    Gawd, Americans are such pansies when it comes to wildlife. Of course, I spent last weekend deep in the woods in a snow cave, so animals don't frighten me. You could have that cat living in your spare bedroom and you would still have a greater chance of being injured, robbed, raped, or killed by some random human being.


    oh so very true....
  • LikeAnOcean
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    Gawd, Americans are such pansies when it comes to wildlife. Of course, I spent last weekend deep in the woods in a snow cave, so animals don't frighten me. You could have that cat living in your spare bedroom and you would still have a greater chance of being injured, robbed, raped, or killed by some random human being.
    True. People are a bigger threat to other people than wild life. I bet if she opened that door that thing would have ran for its life!
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Well, deer around where I grew up were always a problem because of lack of predators. I lived a few minutes from the loop and almost got mauled by a buck a few times walking to the bus stop. More predators are needed to keep the population under control. Mountains lions used to naturally hunt around here a hundred years ago, but man killed them off.

    I say embrace nature! If you get eaten, atleast it was for a good cause! :D
    The wolves probably did more of the work than the Mountain Lions....but there exists that uneasy balance between wolf & man.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Well, deer around where I grew up were always a problem because of lack of predators. I lived a few minutes from the loop and almost got mauled by a buck a few times walking to the bus stop. More predators are needed to keep the population under control. Mountains lions used to naturally hunt around here a hundred years ago, but man killed them off.

    I say embrace nature! If you get eaten, atleast it was for a good cause! :D

    I spend a lot of time in the woods/montains and I have always said that if I get killed by a wild animal, I absolutely insist that no harm comes to it. In fact, my dying wish would be to give the animal a medal of honor.
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  • LikeAnOcean
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    tybird wrote:
    The wolves probably did more of the work than the Mountain Lions....but there exists that uneasy balance between wolf & man.
    The mentality of people amazes me. A kid can get hit by a car and cars are okay, but a kid gets eaten by wild life in a freak accident and the mentality is kill them all.

    Bring back the Wolf, the bicen and the mountain lion!

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