"Cougar mauls horse." That's not a common Wisconsin headline...

[HereSince1628]

A cougar that killed a cow and several sheep last month attacked again when it mauled a horse this week in Juneau County.

The horse, which lives at the same Town of Wonewoc farm as the sheep that were killed, appears to be doing fine but has an 8-inch by 8-inch wound on its neck, said Juneau County Sheriff Brent Oleson.

Investigators identified raking claw marks, a characteristic of cougar attacks, on the horse's side, said Keith Warnke, acting director of the state Department of Natural Resources' Bureau of Endangered Resources.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/96625504.html

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Oh, you meant that kind of cougar!

n/T

[KamaAina]

35. Indeed. I was wondering when "horse" became slang for "young man"

"stallion", maybe. :P

[sufrommich]

2. A cougar has been spotted in the eastern U.P of

Michigan too.Strange.

[HereSince1628]

3. oo! oo! Who let the cats out?

Dakota Fish and Game is doing too good a job with their cougars!

[sufrommich]

4. My parents live in the U.P. I look forward to seeing a cougar,

from a respectable distance.

[HereSince1628]

5. I've heard that 2 buttons on the back of your cap that look like eyes

will discourage an attack from behind. I'm putting old carpenter's union buttons on the cap I wear in my woodlot!

Living with cougars is something of a new experience for us in S. Wisconsin.

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. Alot of the old timers in cougar country swear that if you are faced with a cougar ready to attack

you should start to loudly sing Broadway show tunes. It scares them off almost every time.

[sufrommich]

8. I sing Broadway show tunes while walking through the woods

anyway, so it's alll good.

[Dr.Phool]

10. Slim Whitman makes their head explode.

[formercia]

13. Even better if you can dance.

Next time I go in the woods, I'll bring a top hat and cane.

Bring some babes along and do a Chorus Line.

[AngryAmish]

16. A few years ago the police shot a cougar in Chicago

A very urban neighborhood.

[closeupready]

34. Here you go

With scary photo:

>>Cougar vs. the Windy City: Cougar loses.
> Posted by Diane Lade on April 16, 2008 at 3:03 PM

When wildlife blunders into suburbia, the animals seldom win.

Police shot a cougar roaming in a Chicago North Side neighborhood Monday. The officers said they decided to kill it, rather than use a tranquilizer gun, saying such animals can be difficult to knock out and move.

Instead, the cougar – or at least its skeleton – will be relocated to the city’s huge Field Museum, which specializes in natural history exhibits. Reminds me of the “nuisance” alligators that end up deported from the landscape ponds in our western subdivisions to the handbag factory. Hey, didn’t this used to be their turf?<<

http://blogs.trb.com/features/lifestyle/pets/blog/2008/04/cougar_vs_the_windy_city_cougar_loses_.html

[geardaddy]

24. Your parents are Yoopers, hey?

lol

[sufrommich]

25. Yep, they sure are. nt

[Chiyo-chichi]

6. There have been confirmed cougar sightings in south-central Indiana, too.

[newfie11]

9. Nothing new in the Black Hills

In the past there have been horses clawed, Llamas killed,cougar seen in Rapid City back yards, etc. I don't if cougar hunting has helped this as we have been out of the Black Hills for 5 years now.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. Catherine The Great on the prowl again?

[liam_laddie]

12. Yuk-yuk-yuk! excellent! K&R

[formercia]

14. Must have been a hell of an orgasm.

:rofl:

[TheKentuckian]

15. We are squeezing the poor animals to the extreme

Their territory shrinks daily and the food dwindles right along with it.

We need to give our fellow creatures room to exist and stop greedily developing every inch.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

19. In many cases, their range is expanding/returing

The lack of a predator in places like CA have lead to problems.

[TheKentuckian]

20. That's certainly true to and often rooted in the same base problem

Top line predators need a lot of hunting area or they show up in the burbs looking for grub, those get hunted to extinction and the next thing you know there are too many deer and prairie dogs or whatever.

Too much human sprawl is a key problem up and down the food chain.

[Beacool]

17. Who, me?

I'm innocent I tell you, innocent!!!

O8)

[ProgressiveProfessor]

18. I regularly see cougars within 100 ft of my home

Its why I don't have livestock or even a dog. One has stalked me upon occasion.

More Here: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ProgressiveProfessor/25

[shanti]

23. that's frightening

:scared: you're very brave to live there! do you carry a weapon with you outside?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

31. Its my choice to live in the twigs

I normally carry a revolver loaded with a mix of rounds (snake shot, ball...). Its not being a gun nut, its a basic tool out here. There is a cell tower in sight, so I carry a phone too.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. Just had that happen in Red Dead Redemption.

Had to walk the whole way back to Armadillo.

[Raschel]

22. The DNR here in Minnesota says there are no cougars or bears in the Twin Cities.

Every time one pops up, they're a stray from far away land that have lost their way.

We had a cougar in a very urban neighborhood this year.

[geardaddy]

26. Yeah, every so many years there are cougar sightings

in the western suburbs like Plymouth.

Where are you?

I'm in Uptown Minneapolis, we don't get cougars, but I've seen bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, and my girlfriend saw two wild turkeys in the yard of the apt building next to ours.

[Raschel]

27. We had a cougar in Vadnais Heights not so long ago. The video showed it just slinking past

some nice homes. It was odd to see.

We had a bear just recently (shot by police) on a golf course near 694 and 494. A bear who had her cubs in a culvert in Oakdale, right off of 94 and 694, and a young bear in North St. Paul (shot with pellets, until it came down from the tree, then shot and killed).

I'm in Woodbury and there have been bear sightings around here as well.

[TheMightyFavog]

28. Oh, gods, the local barstool biologists are going to have a field day.

They're going to blame the Department of natural Resources for not letting them shoot cougars on sight, like they want to do with wolves.


http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/96625504.html#comments


Damn, you're already seeing the local dumbass redneck mantra in the comments: Shoot, Shovel, and Shut up.

[geardaddy]

29. Eeeyucch.

Those dumbass T-bag comments remind me of the stupid Star Tribune comments here in Minneapolis.

[TheMightyFavog]

30. Look, I'm pro-hunting myself...

So long as all hunting is closely monitored and tightly regulated based upon good science.

These "Shoot, Shovel, and Shut up" people are POACHERS, and deserve to be locked away in a windowless cage for a long time like the criminal scum they are.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

32. When it comes to cougars in California, S-S-S is the only way to do it

Every shooting gets analyzed to death by those who were not there and do not have enough information up in Sacramento, even if it is one of their own rangers. When I talked to my local ranger about being stalked by one, that was his unofficial but practical advice to me. So far that has not been necessary. I just ensure there is nothing near here for it to eat. It was harder when trespassing campers with ATVs brought their pets and garbage. See http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ProgressiveProfessor/25

Note that I live way out in the twigs and I knew this when I settled there.

[DailyGrind51]

33. 2 years ago, we had one near my Chicago neighborhood!

Here are the pics, courtesy of our local ABC affiliate:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6080893