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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Mountain lions Hatching Round 3
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:13:34 -0800

We have two dogs, a Pitcur Hound and an AmStaff. When any of us go wandering, the dogs go with us. Mountain lions are opportunistic and they don't particularly care to make a big effort. Between the clearing and the dogs, our property is more work than they care for, so they go elsewhere.

If it ever makes an effort to bother our livestock, then we'll have a "discussion" about who gets to live where.

We have a bear that wanders through with her cub each spring. She doesn't bother the garbage, she just uses our property as part of her trail to get from Point A to Point B. Works for me.

There's a bobcat that lives down by our miner's cabin. S/he stays away from the house property and the chickens, so we get along fine.

Now, the ground squirrels and the raccoons are a whole other story. Them I hate! The cats have gotten the ground squirrel population way down and the few that remain have moved to the neighboring properties. The Siamese cat kind of keeps the raccoon somewhat at bay (they don't come around during the evening hours anymore since she chased them off a couple of times. We just have to keep everything shut up at night. However, they keep getting in the garbage and they are going to end up dog food!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


'sounds like you would prefer to let them be, if you could, too. I wonder what they do with the big cat after the kill? huh.........

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--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:


Mountain lions abound in CA. They aren't big on being seen, so you could
live in an area your whole life and never see one. Hear them once in a
blue, but never see them..............


........The gal that just had one killed lives in a canyon (prime mountain lion area) and doesn't barn her sheep and goats at night which is kinda marks her property as a coyote/mountain lion buffet. She's not a terribly logical person. She has some guardian dogs
but keeps them close to the house. Go figure.

Lynda

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