Cat Attack!!

[Santiam338]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25354688

[No Fences]

Bummer.

[Big Unit]

Always pack.

BU

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Big Unit

Always pack.

BU

Even in the bath apparantly.

[Chug]

Forgot to feed that cat that morning.

[Nw dukn]

I'm always carrying in the woods ..

[Abalone]

What a way to go ! Ouch !

[thedesertdrifter]

I grew up in the middle of the River of No Return Wilderness area in Idaho along with three brothers and sisters .The most remote place other than Alaska in the U.S. My parents were only afraid of the californians.I only pack heat for personal protection when I bear hunt.I am not realy afraid of the boogy man.You have a far greater chance of being killed eating bad Tomatos.

[Monkey]

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Media contact: Dan Williams, (505) 476-8004
Public contact: (505) 476-8000
dan.williams@state.nm.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, JUNE 25, 2008:
WOUNDED MOUNTAIN LION CAPTURED, KILLED NEAR PINOS ALTOS
PINOS ALTOS -- A mountain lion that may have killed a Pinos Altos man was captured in a snare and killed Wednesday morning.
The lion was an average-sized adult male weighing approximately 125 pounds. It had four bullet holes in it that appeared to be from buckshot. A Department of Game and Fish officer had shot and wounded a lion with buckshot June 19 near the home of 55-year-old Robert Nawojski.
Nawojski was killed by a mountain lion June 17 or 18 near his small mobile home in a wooded area of Pinos Altos north of Silver City. His partially eaten and buried body was found June 20 near a rock ledge about 60 yards from his home where he liked to bathe and shave.
The lion was caught in a U.S.D.A. Wildlife Services snare about a half-mile from the rock ledge where Nawojski was believed to have been attacked. The lion was killed and its body will be taken to the New Mexico State Police Crime Lab for a necropsy.
Wildlife Services agents and Department of Game and Fish officers with hounds were still searching for a second lion reported to be in the area. "But we're confident the lion we caught last night was the one wounded by our officer Thursday night," Department Officer Leon Redman said.

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[tracker]

Just over 100 attacks in recorded history. What is very important is that just 15 years ago that number was just 64. There have been an increasing number of attacks since states have restricted hunting of cats altogether as in California, or stopped hunting with dogs as in Oregon and Washington. Instead of being the hunter we are now becoming the prey!