gopher321: Also, THIS

haha "if attacked fight back!"

nahhh yaknow what ima just sit here and let him gut me with its claws...

Wild animals? Near MY campground?!

/I'ma' feared!

From TFA:

She put up a box trap with the dead deer cadaver


1) I believe cadavers are - by definition - dead.

2) 'Carcass' probably would have made more sense here. (I think 'cadaver' refers to a dead human.)

Welcome to the food chain.

MAC OS X did THIS??

"What's the matter, kid, you never had lamb chops?"

Batts: gopher321: Also, THIS

haha "if attacked fight back!"

nahhh yaknow what ima just sit here and let him gut me with its claws...

Some dumb people probably think you're supposed to play dead.

/protip: NEVER play dead with an aggressive animal
//but ALWAYS play dead with an aggressive human

If you go camping and/or live in a wild area you should expect to occasionally encounter cougars and other predators and therefore should take sensible precautions. A young man I babysat as a kid was indirectly killed by a cougar a few years ago. He was horseback riding alone and without a helmet, and the cougar attacked his horse while they were crossing a stream. The horse bucked him off, he fell, hit his head, and drowned. They knew it was a cougar because of the pawprints near his body and the scratch marks on the horse. I doubt it would have happened if a second rider had been with him.

Chinchillazilla: Some dumb people probably think you're supposed to play dead.

Hey, Bugs Bunny hasn't steered me wrong yet!

The people in the lodge are ok. It's the poor suckers in the tents that are screwed. There is nothing like a thin layer of nice strong nylon to keep you safe. We camp, I worry. We once found bear scat in our campsite.

SpeedyBB: Jon iz teh kewl: MAC OS X did THIS??

Yes, and you're supposed to stand in line (reaching around the block) all night long in the freezing rain to get a copy of it, made by oppressed suicidal Chinese slaves. And all your friends will admire you for it forever and forever and you'll be cool. At least until next week, when the newer and cooler version of lethal Mountain Lion OS 4Q comes out and hops on your back, snapping your neck bones. Then you'll have to have this one too, to stay cool. But you'll be dead anyway and that's cool enough.

/"Anything but Apple" Group on FB.

Yes yes, we allll know Apple sucks and you are so smug and superior for not using Apple and everyone who uses Apple is a sheeple Android and Linux is best why don't the sheeple understand this

SpeedyBB: Jon iz teh kewl: MAC OS X did THIS??

Yes, and you're supposed to stand in line (reaching around the block) all night long in the freezing rain to get a copy of it, made by oppressed suicidal Chinese slaves. And all your friends will admire you for it forever and forever and you'll be cool. At least until next week, when the newer and cooler version of lethal Mountain Lion OS 4Q comes out and hops on your back, snapping your neck bones. Then you'll have to have this one too, to stay cool. But you'll be dead anyway and that's cool enough.

/"Anything but Apple" Group on FB.

for your information: it's a $19.99 download on mac tunes
unlike Windows 8
which is $9999999.99

But we have to shoot it to protect all the rich people's children!

Nature acting natural? Huh. They will shiat themselves when they see what the juggling-unicycle bear does on his night off. If he ever gets one.

"... the lion did not display any signs of aggression..."

bmwericus: But we have to shoot it to protect all the rich people's children small yappy dogs!

FTFY

/more-or-less the same thing anyway

Krieghund: Healy explained that a coyote might be a bigger threat for any other animals or pets and that
the Tahoe Basin is a wild area where everyone who is visiting or living there needs to be aware of wild animals.

the Taco Bell Basin?

Kill it, then our Woodland Critter Christmas can finally be saved!

/Hail Satan

"I was definitely concerned about the horses," she said. "I was the first one to see it on the side of the trail, but didn't know a mountain lion got a hold of it until I got back (to the barn) and I was told there were claw marks on her and tracks on the trail."

WHY?! I just ate a a whole mule deer, what in the hell makes you think it still has room in its gut to eat a whole farking horse? I mean holy shiat how big was this mountain lion? If its bigger than a horse, maybe its time to farking move.

orclover: "I was definitely concerned about the horses," she said. "I was the first one to see it on the side of the trail, but didn't know a mountain lion got a hold of it until I got back (to the barn) and I was told there were claw marks on her and tracks on the trail."

WHY?! I just ate a a whole mule deer, what in the hell makes you think it still has room in its gut to eat a whole farking horse? I mean holy shiat how big was this mountain lion? If its bigger than a horse, maybe its time to farking move.

Predators kill as much as they can kill, not as much as they can eat. A well-fed mountain lion that comes across a stable of helpless, confined horses will kill every last one, so it has a supply of meat it can go back to when it gets hungry later (until scavengers steal it all).

/fortunately, even confined, a horse is far from helpless
//I'd be more worried about sheep and goats, not to mention domestic pets

Just bring an ass. You'll be fine.