Re: Re: trail safety: cats, etc

["Tracey" <tracey@tbt.co.za>]

I could make a fortune here.  I live about 4km from the Lion Park, and can
ride my horse alongside the fence where the lions are kept.  Er, correction,
if my horse did not stand on his back legs at the very suggestion, I could,
in theory, ride my horse alongside the fence where the lions are kept.  If I
were to charge, say R6 000,00 per person (about $1 000,00 and rapidly
dropping!), how many takers would i have.  Stabling is included in the
price, you just gotta ship your horse over.
-----Original Message-----
From: Celia Krall <celiak@pcrs.net>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>; SL S
<stepnout@swva.net>
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 5:36 AM
Subject: RC: Re: trail safety: cats, etc


>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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