- Dec 12, 2009
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Cougars In The Workplace And This One's No Lady (PICS!)
Although as yet unconfirmed, we have what has been reported as a fairly large mountain lion coming out of the woods behind my workplace and crossing one of our employee lanes. It has been spotted numerous times in the late evening and early morning hours and was finally captured on video. The entire complex is abuzz and my days are now spent fielding questions from executives, managers, and employees about the 'big cat', (I'm the site security supervisor)
We have had Conservation agents out to look around and gave them a DVD of the murky video to forward to their wildlife biologist for verification. The most important detail they are looking for is the slender elongated tail that would positively identify it. If they believe it to be a mountain lion, they will strap a wildlife cam to one of our trees to observe it.
Just yesterday it was reported that there are now TWO of these critters. Sometimes they are together, sometimes it's the wee one most likely being taught the ways of the hunt by mama who's probably very close by.
If this turns out to be a mountain lion, or two, it will become a media circus around here.
Below are stills from the vid but cropped so as not to show identifying landmarks or company names. The animal approaches the lane from the right and crosses into the shadow. One of our alert guys was waiting in his car for it and hit the critter with his high beams which you can see in the stills. It looked over, freaked out and was gone in a flash.
Although as yet unconfirmed, we have what has been reported as a fairly large mountain lion coming out of the woods behind my workplace and crossing one of our employee lanes. It has been spotted numerous times in the late evening and early morning hours and was finally captured on video. The entire complex is abuzz and my days are now spent fielding questions from executives, managers, and employees about the 'big cat', (I'm the site security supervisor)
We have had Conservation agents out to look around and gave them a DVD of the murky video to forward to their wildlife biologist for verification. The most important detail they are looking for is the slender elongated tail that would positively identify it. If they believe it to be a mountain lion, they will strap a wildlife cam to one of our trees to observe it.
Just yesterday it was reported that there are now TWO of these critters. Sometimes they are together, sometimes it's the wee one most likely being taught the ways of the hunt by mama who's probably very close by.
If this turns out to be a mountain lion, or two, it will become a media circus around here.
Below are stills from the vid but cropped so as not to show identifying landmarks or company names. The animal approaches the lane from the right and crosses into the shadow. One of our alert guys was waiting in his car for it and hit the critter with his high beams which you can see in the stills. It looked over, freaked out and was gone in a flash.
.I've read that cougars can jump 30 feet horizontally, you wont know what hit you.
Wow OMG you scared me....thought for sure I'd see a picture of a person I know who plays that roll to a T who sticks her nose so high in the air when she walks that if the wind blows to hard she'd probably end up in another state. Throws temper tanrums to get attention and then pulls out the harrassment card and holds it over men when they don't give her what she wants....ugggg pure trash, but the blunt of our jokes all the time....at least we get a laugh out of it....LOL.
