stryker-one said:
t mode. Wasn't put out for public consumption, but two were killed out off of El Toro road. Problem solved......
boogeyman said:Looks like the pumas have moved up from Laguna Niguel! If you're in Palo Alto, see if you can look at some of the articles in the Orange County Register. I think it was back around 2000 or so they had some grabbing dogs and a lady jogger was attacked. The county officials said there was nothing to worry about until they started killing dogs and cats. When the lady was attacked everyone changed their tunes and switched to AAW SH
Be very careful!
Semper Fi Ski I was born at Pendleton, spent a lot of child hood on El Toro, and was later stationed there twice.Thanks for the info, couldn't quite remember the dates & details. People in the area don't realize what's out there in "the city" I've seen Numerous owls. possums skunks coyotes a bobcat, and just about every kind of owl & hawk, all this in the downtown area of Costa Mesa. Followed a coyote down the Santa Ana river bike trail from north Santa Ana almost to the beach. He got tired of loping along in front of me and hopped into the brush.SgtSki in MI said:boogeyman said:Looks like the pumas have moved up from Laguna Niguel! If you're in Palo Alto, see if you can look at some of the articles in the Orange County Register. I think it was back around 2000 or so they had some grabbing dogs and a lady jogger was attacked. The county officials said there was nothing to worry about until they started killing dogs and cats. When the lady was attacked everyone changed their tunes and switched to AAW SH
Be very careful!
I was stationed in OC from 1985 to 1993 when I was in the Marine Corps. I lived at MCAS El Toro but worked at MCAS Tustin. I remember the big flap over cougars (or mountain lions, or pumas, ar panthers, or catamounts, or whatever). If I remember correctly, Trabuco Canyon was off El Toro Rd east of Irvine Blvd. It was a park with picnicking and hiking and nature trails. I recall a few maulings in there. I also remember the big flap with getting hunting of mountain lions outlawed in California. They were finally successful. The lady who spearheaded getting mountain lion hunting outlawed (some bleeding-heart tree-hugging druid hippie tofu-fartin' Sierra Clubber...I forget her name) later was MAULED by a mountain lion not too many years after she got hunting them outlawed.
Poetic Justice?......I think so.
After El Toro / Tustin I was stationed at Ft Huachuca, AZ as an Unmanned Air Vehicle Instructor from 1993 until I became part of Slick Willie's Military Manpower-reduction Body Count in 1996 (but I'm not bitter. Why, do I sound like it?). While I was out there a mountain lion jumped out of a mesquite thicket and made off with a little girl's pygmy goat at a 4H meet. This same lion was harrassing the horses at the Riding Stables. I used to bowhunt for Coues' Whitetail there. Once I was still-hunting my way to my blind and passed the Fort's Wildlife Biologist who was hunting in his blind. On my way back to the car at nightfall I met up with him and he told me that I had a mountain lion stalking me on my backtrail about 200 yds behind me. He ran it off by throwing a couple rocks at it. We think it was the same one that grabbed the goats later on which was hunted down and killed eventually. It could have just as easily grabbed the kid, she was right there.
Needless to say, no I don't like those critters at all.
SgtSki in MI said:boogeyman said:Looks like the pumas have moved up from Laguna Niguel! If you're in Palo Alto, see if you can look at some of the articles in the Orange County Register. I think it was back around 2000 or so they had some grabbing dogs and a lady jogger was attacked. The county officials said there was nothing to worry about until they started killing dogs and cats. When the lady was attacked everyone changed their tunes and switched to AAW SH
Be very careful!
I was stationed in OC from 1985 to 1993 when I was in the Marine Corps. I lived at MCAS El Toro but worked at MCAS Tustin. I remember the big flap over cougars (or mountain lions, or pumas, ar panthers, or catamounts, or whatever). If I remember correctly, Trabuco Canyon was off El Toro Rd east of Irvine Blvd. It was a park with picnicking and hiking and nature trails. I recall a few maulings in there. I also remember the big flap with getting hunting of mountain lions outlawed in California. They were finally successful. The lady who spearheaded getting mountain lion hunting outlawed (some bleeding-heart tree-hugging druid hippie tofu-fartin' Sierra Clubber...I forget her name) later was MAULED by a mountain lion not too many years after she got hunting them outlawed.
Poetic Justice?......I think so.
After El Toro / Tustin I was stationed at Ft Huachuca, AZ as an Unmanned Air Vehicle Instructor from 1993 until I became part of Slick Willie's Military Manpower-reduction Body Count in 1996 (but I'm not bitter. Why, do I sound like it?). While I was out there a mountain lion jumped out of a mesquite thicket and made off with a little girl's pygmy goat at a 4H meet. This same lion was harrassing the horses at the Riding Stables. I used to bowhunt for Coues' Whitetail there. Once I was still-hunting my way to my blind and passed the Fort's Wildlife Biologist who was hunting in his blind. On my way back to the car at nightfall I met up with him and he told me that I had a mountain lion stalking me on my backtrail about 200 yds behind me. He ran it off by throwing a couple rocks at it. We think it was the same one that grabbed the goats later on which was hunted down and killed eventually. It could have just as easily grabbed the kid, she was right there.
Needless to say, no I don't like those critters at all.
