Re: trail safety: cats, etc

["Celia Krall" <celiak@pcrs.net>]

Does anyone have any really good advice about how to behave (for survival)
when confronted with a lion?

I've been told that making loud noises really is pretty exciting to cats,
and they will have a much better time eating you if you scream and yell. 
(Not from a scientific, scholarly source.  From a blonde who thinks she's a
Rhodes scholar, but ain't.)

I have been worried about lions since seeing a couple last spring.  I'm
pretty sure my mare, myself and my dog are all in big trouble.  How would
you even carry a weapon that would be at the ready when a lion jumps on
your horse's neck out of nowhere?

Karma?  Prayer?  Stay home?  Move to the city?  (naaaah. - rather get eaten
by a lion)

No wonder my Arab mare is spooky.  She's no dummy.  Maybe that ear pinning,
head shaking, kicky attitude could come in handy.


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> From: SL S <stepnout@swva.net>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:  trail safety: cats, etc
> Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 7:24 AM
> 
> Garrett:  sounds like it's time to start running with weapons, and maybe
> with your horse.  Hate to say it but we've got cougars here in the Blue
> Ridge, though not very many.  They have been seen and heard, and the
local
> grapevine says the gov't has purposely released breeding pairs in the
> mountains south of my farm.  I'm considering conditioning myself to carry
a
> .357 magnum...heck, I'm slooooow anyhow, so a few more pounds won't
change
> much.  Anyone have other suggestions for appropriate "portable"
armaments?
> How about chemical sprays (ones that will actually hit a target at 10
feet
> or more)?  
> 
> As for a dog, I believe I'd just opt for at least three, and make them
> educated Plott hounds or Rhodesian Ridgebacks.  They can occupy the cat
til
> you get off a shot...and yep, I'll shoot anything that tries to make
lunch
> out of me, even if it's the last cat on earth.  
> 
> Sally in Floyd, VA
> 
> 
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