[RC] Mountain Lions in No. Calif. - Ann Blankenship
We live in Northern California just off the Tevis Trail and I can
tell you that there are tons of lions up here. People just don’t
see them. We occasionally spot them crossing the road at night, find
their tracks in our arenas, or see them crossing the horse pastures but never
have had them bother anything other than deer (which they sometimes sit and eat
in your driveway). The unfortunate exception to this was the death a few
years ago of a woman jogger who (some say) got between a mama lion and her
cub. The cub is now in the Folsom Zoo, mama is in lion heaven.
We also have so
many bear that the trappers won’t even come up here unless the bear is
just about sitting at your table. A local horse shoer came home
from some time away to find one had taken up residence in his house. The
trappers told him that he’d have to take care of it himself… that
they were on another job. LOL! The bear has now joined the lion in
heaven.
I used to ride
with a little 45 in my fanny pack but my mare did a spinning spook one day and
landed me right on the pistol. Now, you never want to fall on your
gun. It really hurts. <grin>
