MEANWHILE HIS WALLET WAS STOLEN BY SQUIRRELS

Man Attacked by Mountain Lion, Saved by Bear

(Thanks to Poker)

Comments

[O the Umanity]

Feral Lions. Raging Bears. I thot they din't allow animals to be wild in CA ... ruins the ambiance, they say, so they created a neighborhood association the ban such behavior by the critters ...

[padraig]

A friendly beaver could do me a world of good, let me tell ya.

[Omniskeptic]

I keep telling youse guys out there -- knock off da inter-carnivore aggression. We got a deal, remember? You get da antelopes, da deers, da salmon -- like dat. We get da cows, da pigs, da sheep. An' no eatin' up on each other!

Youse can have Ted Nugent, if you want.

[HogsAteMySister]

Cats bad. Bears good.

[padraig the cheesehead]

Bears still suck.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Just read another article saying this was total bullsh!t perhaps perhaps not entirely truthful.

Ya think?

[Horace LaBadie]

Sounds oddly like a book by Dave Barry.

[wiredog]

Where was sasquatch?

[O the Umanity]

Yah, I tend to believe the hiker guy ... the CA F&G outfit does NOT wanna admit ... nor do the "treehuggin' public" either ... that mountain lions do, in fact, attack people ...

Heavens! They might hafta discipline the kitty with a slap on the paw, or sumthin' equally fierce and cruel ...

[queensbee]

nah - not squirrels. its those woodchucks ya gotta watch.

[Steve]

I have my doubts.
I was attacked by an ocelot when I was a kid. The cat basically was hungry and didn't want to be hassled.
My injuries were superficial but still worse than shown in that photo. And an ocelot is a smallish cat.
I call B.S. (Bear Scat).

[Loudmouth]

Da Bears beat da Lions.

He did a little gold panning afterward. Wow, he's got more brass nuggets than gold.

[Hammond Rye]

A moose once bit my sister...

[Horace LaBadie]

Møøse bites can be painful...

[Meanie the Blue]

Care Bear?

[Make It Rain]

Once again we return to "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink"

[funny man]

Was it Smokey Bear?

He is an honorary, imaginary Park Ranger, I hear.

[Betsy]

Duh. The bear didn't rush to HIS rescue. She had a cub; and figured while the predator was busy with other prey, she'd get in a few licks of her own.

Not so much touchy-feely as an astute geopolitical-type judgement call.

[Clankie]

I hope he stops that unbearable lyin'.

[Ralph]

Maybe it was smarter than the average bear.

[Steve]

You know those "bear-proof" trash can lids they have in the national parks?
I saw a mama bear reach right into one of those handles and open the lid faster than I could.
And Yogi hangs his head in shame.

[Omniskeptic]

Steve - That's a favorite of mine. She's a smallish female bear, living along the Appalachian trail, and she's figured out every iteration of the bear-proof containers that they come up with. I wish I still had the link to the story -- it had diagrams of how she got the lids off and everything.

I'm just thankful she doesn't have a laptop.

[Cheesewiz]

I would personally drink the hydrogen peroxide after such an incident but that's just me.