JLibourel
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Oh, mountain lions are definitely reclaiming the Midwest and East, no doubt about it. That's old news.
When you said "cats," I thought maybe you meant really big cats.
Gun writer Greg Rodriguez told me he was on a deer stand down near the Tex-Mex border when what should he see come stalking by but a maned African lion! About a week later, another chap told him he had seen the same animal, so he wasn't hallucinating or imagining things. Given the many thousands of big cats in private hands in the USA, I'm surprised there aren't more escapees of this kind running around. As many of you know, an escaped tiger created quite a stir in the Simi Valley / Thousand Oaks area of California a couple of years ago before it was shot by the cops.
Earlier there were reports of an African lioness loose in the mountains to the north of there. As far as I know, that girl was never captured or shot. I hope she's still out there!
I have known three people--all of them women, interestingly--who have privately owned tigers. This is more than the number of owners of many dog breeds I have known, AKC recognized dog breeds, not rare or exotic breeds like mine, and I have been pretty active in the dog culture in my time.
When you said "cats," I thought maybe you meant really big cats.
Gun writer Greg Rodriguez told me he was on a deer stand down near the Tex-Mex border when what should he see come stalking by but a maned African lion! About a week later, another chap told him he had seen the same animal, so he wasn't hallucinating or imagining things. Given the many thousands of big cats in private hands in the USA, I'm surprised there aren't more escapees of this kind running around. As many of you know, an escaped tiger created quite a stir in the Simi Valley / Thousand Oaks area of California a couple of years ago before it was shot by the cops.
Earlier there were reports of an African lioness loose in the mountains to the north of there. As far as I know, that girl was never captured or shot. I hope she's still out there!
I have known three people--all of them women, interestingly--who have privately owned tigers. This is more than the number of owners of many dog breeds I have known, AKC recognized dog breeds, not rare or exotic breeds like mine, and I have been pretty active in the dog culture in my time.