Animals

[Ulysses]

Dog barking at ‘raccoon’ under porch leads Colorado homeowners to a mountain lion

Homeowners in Boulder discovered a mountain lion hiding under their porch, forcing officials to tranquilize and relocate the big cat, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a news release.

The owners of the house made the startling discovery after their dog alerted them to a disturbance, the release said. They went outside and looked under the porch, expecting to find a raccoon as they often see in the area.

Instead, they found the mountain lion, tucked under the porch that had only around a foot of clearance from the ground.

The homeowners reported the animal at around 7:30 a.m., and officials from Animal Protection and Open Space & Mountain Parks were the first to arrive at the scene, the release said. An officer from Colorado Parks and Wildlife tranquilized the animal, and officials were able to pull him out by 10 a.m.

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Awww. , Useless. So much for "Ignored". You fail again. Plus, Useless, you've been busted too many times for anyone to believe you're not reading my posts, anyhow. It's just your excuse for cowering. Awww.

[O Really]

And who do we know who has been speaking ill of such critters?

"Raccoons, Skunks, and Foxes Falling Sick in the Bay Area as a Respiratory Virus Spreads"

https://baynature.org/2022/03/02/raccoo ... s-spreads/

[Vrede too]

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And who do we know who has been speaking ill of such critters?

"Raccoons, Skunks, and Foxes Falling Sick in the Bay Area as a Respiratory Virus Spreads"

https://baynature.org/2022/03/02/raccoo ... s-spreads/

... A number of viruses and pathogens persist in the environment and move between species. A 2018 study of ten live Presidio coyotes showed that two had antibodies indicating a recent distemper exposure, and another had antibodies indicating a previous parvovirus infection. Eight had suffered from toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by a parasite that spreads in cat feces....

Hmmm.

[Ulysses]

And who do we know who has been speaking ill of such critters?

"Raccoons, Skunks, and Foxes Falling Sick in the Bay Area as a Respiratory Virus Spreads"

https://baynature.org/2022/03/02/raccoo ... s-spreads/

I don't know, who?

[O Really]

Ulysses wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:53 pm
Well, please don't be hating on me, but I finally had enough with the raccoon that was coming around, now in early evening, to raid the cat food bowls. So I set out a trap in the driveway next to the porch, and sure enough there was a very fat furry raccoon in it this morning.

I won't go into any details of what next transpired, and it's not something I enjoy. Safe to say that particular raccoon won't be coming round no more.

There may be more raccoons coming to the porch, I'll just pull the food in before retiring to bed and see if that ceases to attract them.

[Vrede too]

I don't know, who?

Childish.

Ulysses wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:53 pm
Well, please don't be hating on me, but I finally had enough with the raccoon that was coming around, now in early evening, to raid the cat food bowls. So I set out a trap in the driveway next to the porch, and sure enough there was a very fat furry raccoon in it this morning.

I won't go into any details of what next transpired, and it's not something I enjoy. Safe to say that particular raccoon won't be coming round no more.

There may be more raccoons coming to the porch, I'll just pull the food in before retiring to bed and see if that ceases to attract them.

Then, there was the baby raccoon that Useless electrocuted and composted. He also traps skunks for fun. Idk for sure about foxes, but I wouldn't think that any feral cat enabler likes them.

[Ulysses]

"Raccoons, Skunks, and Foxes Falling Sick in the Bay Area as a Respiratory Virus Spreads"

https://baynature.org/2022/03/02/raccoo ... s-spreads/

Could the raccoons, skunks, and foxes be contracting Covid-19?

Seems possible:

Animals and COVID-19

...
Reports of animals infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been documented around the world. Most of these animals became infected after contact with people with COVID-19, including owners, caretakers, or others who were in close contact. We don’t yet know all of the animals that can get infected. Animals reported infected include:

Companion animals, including pet cats, dogs, and ferrets.
Animals in zoos and sanctuaries, including several types of big cats, otters, non-human primates, a binturong, a coatimundi, a fishing cat, and hyenas.
Mink on mink farms.
Wild white-tailed deer in several U.S. states.
...

[neoplacebo]

Not many people know it, but Animal Crackers were invented after a guy spotted a group of white supremacist animals hanging out in a field in Alabama back in the early 1940's and the guy got the sudden idea of making Animal Crackers just from observing this group of southern white animals.

[Vrede too]

Not many people know it, but Animal Crackers were invented after a guy spotted a group of white supremacist animals hanging out in a field in Alabama back in the early 1940's and the guy got the sudden idea of making Animal Crackers just from observing this group of southern white animals.

... coated with a thick layer of creamy milk chocolate and topped with colorful candy beads. Your kids, or the kid in you, will love them!

Unofficially known as Animal Brothas.

[Ulysses]

Not many people know it, but Animal Crackers were invented after a guy spotted a group of white supremacist animals hanging out in a field in Alabama back in the early 1940's and the guy got the sudden idea of making Animal Crackers just from observing this group of southern white animals.

One can learn so much from Neo, every day.

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‘Unprecedented killing’: The deadliest season for Yellowstone’s wolves
On the 150th anniversary of America’s first national park, one-third of its wolves are dead

"In less than six months, hunters have shot and trapped 25 of Yellowstone’s wolves — a record for one season — the majority killed in this part of Montana just over the park border."

I couldn't finish the article, it's just too sad.

[GoCubsGo]

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‘Unprecedented killing’: The deadliest season for Yellowstone’s wolves
On the 150th anniversary of America’s first national park, one-third of its wolves are dead

"In less than six months, hunters have shot and trapped 25 of Yellowstone’s wolves — a record for one season — the majority killed in this part of Montana just over the park border."

I couldn't finish the article, it's just too sad.

I'm not even going to read the article.

Why though?

Just bloodlust?

[Vrede too]

I'm not even going to read the article.

Why though?

Just bloodlust?

At least one outfitter/hunting guide, a supporter of some wolf hunting, argues that it's exactly that. It's a Trumpian-style assholery visited upon our wolves.

[GoCubsGo]

I'm not even going to read the article.

Why though?

Just bloodlust?

At least one outfitter/hunting guide, a supporter of some wolf hunting, argues that it's exactly that. It's a Trumpian-style assholery visited upon our wolves.

Proof positive.

[Ulysses]

Proof positive.

OK, who wants a little hat made out of Boebert fur?

(Shorn, not skinned...)

[neoplacebo]

I read something the other day about some guy out west who may or may not be running for or hold public office (I was well into the Vivarium when I managed to read this) shot a mountain lion that had "strayed out of Yellowstone National Park." The tone of the story was hostility to the killer. I think he was on his own property at the time of the incident.

[Vrede too]

I read something the other day about some guy out west who may or may not be running for or hold public office (I was well into the Vivarium when I managed to read this) shot a mountain lion that had "strayed out of Yellowstone National Park." The tone of the story was hostility to the killer. I think he was on his own property at the time of the incident.

‘Unprecedented killing’: The deadliest season for Yellowstone’s wolves
On the 150th anniversary of America’s first national park, one-third of its wolves are dead

... Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) himself killed a Yellowstone wolf last year that was wearing a research collar and had strayed from the park. In December, he killed a mountain lion that was also being tracked by Park Service biologists. In shooting the wolf, the governor violated a state hunting rule because he failed to take a required trapper certification course, and was given a written warning. He later said he “made a mistake.” ...

He's a serial killer:

Hounds chased a Yellowstone National Park mountain lion into a tree. Then Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte shot it.
The lion was killed late last year on U.S. Forest Service land. Gianforte’s office said the hunt was legal.

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Greg Gianforte poses below animal trophies in his home in Bozeman, Mont., in 2016.

Some Montanans have raised questions about the tactics employed during the hunt. One person familiar with the incident told The Post that the mountain lion was kept in the tree by the hunting dogs for a couple of hours while Gianforte traveled to the site in the Rock Creek drainage area. In neighboring Wyoming, detaining a mountain lion in a tree until another hunter arrives is illegal.

Stroyke denied that account. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Greg Lemon also said “the idea that the governor just showed up to harvest the animal is not consistent” with what he’s been told.

The hunting site was located close to the Point of Rocks Ranch, where Gianforte trapped and killed the Yellowstone wolf last year. That ranch is owned by Robert E. Smith, who is a co-director of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a Maryland-based company that owns or operates nearly 200 local television stations across the country. Smith has donated to Gianforte in the past....

Fucking Sinclair.

We've discussed him before:
viewtopic.php?p=75365#p75365

Oh well.

Gianforte wins Montana special House election despite being charged with assault

Montana Republican admits his original story about assaulting a reporter was a lie
What Greg Gianforte said after winning an election was drastically different than the story his campaign told the day before.

No actual admission that he lied, it's just the only logical conclusion. I won't hold my breath waiting for the apology for the lie.

Fucking criminal bully and cowardly liar.

viewtopic.php?p=75398#p75398

The Guardian: GOP candidate Greg Gianforte has financial ties to US-sanctioned Russian companies

According to a financial disclosure filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives, the Montana tech mogul owns almost $150,000 worth of shares in VanEck Vectors Russia ETF and $92,400 in the IShares MSCF Russia ETF fund. Both are indexed to the Russian equities market and have significant holdings in companies such as Gazprom and Rosneft that came under US sanctions in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of the Crimea

Who could have predicted it.

Fucking Russia.

[Ulysses]

I read something the other day about some guy out west who may or may not be running for or hold public office (I was well into the Vivarium when I managed to read this) shot a mountain lion that had "strayed out of Yellowstone National Park." The tone of the story was hostility to the killer. I think he was on his own property at the time of the incident.

Probably not California... too far for even a mountain lion to go from Yellowstone.

And in this state one probably could be held for some sort of endangered species violation even on one's own property.

Oh, wait. If the lion is attacking livestock or pets, it's now legal here to off it. After three strikes.

1st mountain lion killed by landowner under California law, officials say

A radio-collared mountain lion living in the western Santa Monica Mountains has been shot and killed by a landowner, the first under a California law that allows the "specially protected" species to be killed if it harms pets or livestock. The cougar, known as P-56, was fatally shot on Jan. 27 after a property owner who had lost a dozen animals received a depredation permit from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the National Park Service said in a press release Monday.

The hunting of mountain lions, which are designated by the state as a "specially protected mammal," has been banned in California since 1990. However, a property owner can request a depredation permit to kill the large cat if it has killed or injured livestock or pets, according to the National Park Service.

In December 2017, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife implemented a "three-strike" policy that adds protection to the cougar populations in the Santa Monica Mountains and the Santa Ana Mountains, where there is another isolated at-risk population. In these areas, a landowner must first use non-lethal means to deter the mountain lion before a depredation permit is issued, according to the National Park Service.

The property owner in this instance had nine depredation incidents resulting in the loss of 12 animals over two years. Even though the incidents involving P-56 took place beyond the boundary of the current geographic area for the three-strikes policy, the landowner implemented measures "including bringing in as many livestock as possible, penning any remaining livestock close to the barn and houses, and utilizing trained guard dogs, hot wire fencing, motion activated lights and auditory (radio) hazing," the National Park Service said in the press release, citing officials at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who had investigated the depredation incidents.

[Vrede too]

I read something the other day about some guy out west who may or may not be running for or hold public office (I was well into the Vivarium when I managed to read this) shot a mountain lion that had "strayed out of Yellowstone National Park." The tone of the story was hostility to the killer. I think he was on his own property at the time of the incident.

Probably not California...

neoplacebo has already been replied to, in detail:
viewtopic.php?p=159906#p159906
Your infantile use of ignore has made you and all of your windy blathering on the topic idiotic, again.