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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

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:
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> > 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..............
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> ........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.
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> > Lynda
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