Some excitement up here today. As I was sipping coffee and debating with myself to run gas lines or install windows today, I heard an announcement for a lost dog on our road. With about 60 parcels spread along 10 miles, it did not surprise me to hear it was one of our close neighbors and family friends. Their dog nelly was missing.
About fifteen minutes ago, I got a call from my boss at the ranch that my next door neighbor had a few recent run ins with our local lions and was planning on taking a nuisance tag out.
So, I have to be up at the ranch in an hour, but I've tossed my pack into the truck and will be trying to find nelly. I hope the silly dog ran off after a
****, but I'm taking rock climbing gear, as the dog was probably pulled downslope if it was a mountain lion.
My boss has a bunch of stuff for me to drop off to my neighbor who has been talking about shooting a cat. Probably bs about how to keep cats from getting habituated, and how we are tresspassers in their world. I'll drop it off, but of our lion has become habituated, and has killed one neighbors dog and has been stalking another neighbors kids, I also hope to be able to hand him photos of a lion kill so he can get his lion tag.
Actually, I hope I get to nellys home and find her wagging her tail at the gate, but the coincidences are piling up.
As a bit of background, we live on a front range ridge, so it's not so much that we have animal encounters as the fact that we live amongst them. I've seen the bears and mountain lion, and feel privledged to live in such proximity with such amaIng creatures, but if a lion has been stalking kids up here, it's time to open up it's range to a more timid cat.
About fifteen minutes ago, I got a call from my boss at the ranch that my next door neighbor had a few recent run ins with our local lions and was planning on taking a nuisance tag out.
So, I have to be up at the ranch in an hour, but I've tossed my pack into the truck and will be trying to find nelly. I hope the silly dog ran off after a
****, but I'm taking rock climbing gear, as the dog was probably pulled downslope if it was a mountain lion.
My boss has a bunch of stuff for me to drop off to my neighbor who has been talking about shooting a cat. Probably bs about how to keep cats from getting habituated, and how we are tresspassers in their world. I'll drop it off, but of our lion has become habituated, and has killed one neighbors dog and has been stalking another neighbors kids, I also hope to be able to hand him photos of a lion kill so he can get his lion tag.
Actually, I hope I get to nellys home and find her wagging her tail at the gate, but the coincidences are piling up.
As a bit of background, we live on a front range ridge, so it's not so much that we have animal encounters as the fact that we live amongst them. I've seen the bears and mountain lion, and feel privledged to live in such proximity with such amaIng creatures, but if a lion has been stalking kids up here, it's time to open up it's range to a more timid cat.