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A Colorado runner was attacked Monday by a mountain lion during a trail run in the northern part of the state that resulted in puncture wounds to his face, arms, legs and back and the death of the animal.
Rebecca Ferrell, a spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, tells The Coloradoan the man was running alone at Horsetooth Mountain Open Space near Fort Collins when he was attacked from behind.
The runner, whose name has not been released, fought off the cougar-- killing it in the process-- and hiked out of the area and drove himself to a hospital. The Denver Post reported that the runner suffered serious injuries that included facial bite wounds and lacerations to his body. He is expected to recover.
Wildlife officers searching the trail found the juvenile mountain lion's body near several of the runner's possessions. They estimated that the animal weighed about 80 pounds.
“The runner did everything he could to save his life. In the event of a lion attack you need to do anything in your power to fight back just as this gentleman did,” Mark Leslie, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Northeast Region manager, told KKTV.
The last mountain lion attack in Colorado was reported in June 2016 in Pitkin County.
“Mountain lion attacks are not common in Colorado and it is unfortunate that the lion’s hunting instincts were triggered by the runner,” Ty Petersburg, area wildlife manager for CPW, said. “This could have had a very different outcome.”
Rebecca Ferrell, a spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, tells The Coloradoan the man was running alone at Horsetooth Mountain Open Space near Fort Collins when he was attacked from behind.
The runner, whose name has not been released, fought off the cougar-- killing it in the process-- and hiked out of the area and drove himself to a hospital. The Denver Post reported that the runner suffered serious injuries that included facial bite wounds and lacerations to his body. He is expected to recover.
Wildlife officers searching the trail found the juvenile mountain lion's body near several of the runner's possessions. They estimated that the animal weighed about 80 pounds.
“The runner did everything he could to save his life. In the event of a lion attack you need to do anything in your power to fight back just as this gentleman did,” Mark Leslie, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Northeast Region manager, told KKTV.
The last mountain lion attack in Colorado was reported in June 2016 in Pitkin County.
“Mountain lion attacks are not common in Colorado and it is unfortunate that the lion’s hunting instincts were triggered by the runner,” Ty Petersburg, area wildlife manager for CPW, said. “This could have had a very different outcome.”
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He is lucky it was just a little squirt. I work with CPW predator staff. Some of the big males they've collared are 2 hundo. In that region as well.
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Was it snowing?
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M'eh.....the Throbber has fought off cougars nearly twice that size.
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True story:
A family friend was bow hunting in Southern Oregon. All of a sudden the hair on the back of his neck spiked up. He turned around and saw a cougar ready to pounce on him. He fortunately carries a sidearm when he bow hunts, so he was able to kill it before it actually sprung on him. I didn't find out exactly how big the damn thing was, but it was big enough for him to dislocate his shoulder lifting the head up for a picture. The picture was badass. Side note: Oregon has now banned people from carrying sidearms when bow hunting...dumb fucks in state congress need to bow hunt without one and see how long they last...idiots. Anyway...he still carries one when he bow hunts, along with every other sane person. -
Sounds like Cuogs like to sneak attack from behind
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PurpleThrobber said:
M'eh.....the Throbber has fought off cougars nearlytwicefour times that size. -
You're confusing the Throbber with @IrishDawg221to392831weretaken said:PurpleThrobber said:
M'eh.....the Throbber has fought off cougars nearlytwicefour times that size.
@YellowSnow and I have had this discussion before regarding height/weight proportionality.
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He said four tims, not ten tims.PurpleThrobber said:
You're confusing the Throbber with @IrishDawg221to392831weretaken said:PurpleThrobber said:
M'eh.....the Throbber has fought off cougars nearlytwicefour times that size. -
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That said, Jake Browning still hasn't traveled the Hershey Highway.
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Jake Browning's a fucking virgin, forget about ass fucking.PurpleThrobber said:
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That said, Jake Browning still hasn't traveled the Hershey Highway. -
I'm curious how he killed it? Guessing it was snowy, and probably mixed in a few blitzes with the slot corner out of the dime.
Cougs don't perform in the snow. They just don't. -
The Cougar would like to meet the hunter in Moses Lake in the summer every year and see what happens
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There's a world of info right at my finger tips. He suffocated it.chuck said:I'm curious how he killed it? Guessing it was snowy, and probably mixed in a few blitzes with the slot corner out of the dime.
Cougs don't perform in the snow. They just don't.
Breaking...Oregon Ducks bring in Colorado jogger as defensive consultant. -
Gruesome image from the scene just released. Not for the feint of heart.
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I have a few buddies who are timber cruisers. They worry about those things more than anything else, except for maybe weird people.
All of them carry heat into the woods, and I don't blame them. They also take dogs with them if nothing else to give them a heads up. Those things are deadly af. -
This should have got 30 chinsUWhuskytskeet said:Was it snowing?
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Pitching and catching are two different positions....Pitchfork51 said:
Jake Browning's a fucking virgin, forget about ass fucking.PurpleThrobber said:
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That said, Jake Browning still hasn't traveled the Hershey Highway.
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I've regularly walked 1-5 miles at a time alone in the woods for work going back to the early 90s (thousands of miles by now) and have exactly one cougar encounter. It was on a short section of stream running right through a town. It ran away from me but still scared the shit out of me. I was, like everyone in my field of work, carrying a walking stick with an small hook on one end and a flimsy knife with no point and a dull, serrated blade.creepycoug said:I have a few buddies who are timber cruisers. They worry about those things more than anything else, except for maybe weird people.
All of them carry heat into the woods, and I don't blame them. They also take dogs with them if nothing else to give them a heads up. Those things are deadly af.
There are dozens, hundreds at times, of people out walking in the northwest woods alone for work every day, almost year round, with no dog or weapons (by policy). While the number of fatal or dangerous cougar encounters is rising quickly, it's still at zero.
Dogs are nothing but cougar bait unless you have multiple noisy ones with you. -
Not sure I agree with you on that point. They hear and smell the thing long before you're in a position to say "oh shit, it's a cougar".chuck said:
I've regularly walked 1-5 miles at a time alone in the woods for work going back to the early 90s (thousands of miles by now) and have exactly one cougar encounter. It was on a short section of stream running right through a town. It ran away from me but still scared the shit out of me. I was, like everyone in my field of work, carrying a walking stick with an small hook on one end and a flimsy knife with no point and a dull, serrated blade.creepycoug said:I have a few buddies who are timber cruisers. They worry about those things more than anything else, except for maybe weird people.
All of them carry heat into the woods, and I don't blame them. They also take dogs with them if nothing else to give them a heads up. Those things are deadly af.
There are dozens, hundreds at times, of people out walking in the northwest woods alone for work every day, almost year round, with no dog or weapons (by policy). While the number of fatal or dangerous cougar encounters is rising quickly, it's still at zero.
Dogs are nothing but cougar bait unless you have multiple noisy ones with you.
And the guy who had his stomach eaten last May? The guy on the bike? 1>0.
I'm not saying it's an epidemic; but if I'm in the woods often, I'm going to be prepped. Being eaten alive is on the creep's priority list of things to avoid. -
Then obvious advantage here is the dog gives the cougar something to eat besides you
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There have only been a handful of cougar attacks, let alone fatalities, in the last 100 years in the U.S. If you're worried about cougars you're a pansy.creepycoug said:I have a few buddies who are timber cruisers. They worry about those things more than anything else, except for maybe weird people.
All of them carry heat into the woods, and I don't blame them. They also take dogs with them if nothing else to give them a heads up. Those things are deadly af. -
That guy wasn't working unless I'm mistaken, so I'm still rightcreepycoug said:
Not sure I agree with you on that point. They hear and smell the thing long before you're in a position to say "oh shit, it's a cougar".chuck said:
I've regularly walked 1-5 miles at a time alone in the woods for work going back to the early 90s (thousands of miles by now) and have exactly one cougar encounter. It was on a short section of stream running right through a town. It ran away from me but still scared the shit out of me. I was, like everyone in my field of work, carrying a walking stick with an small hook on one end and a flimsy knife with no point and a dull, serrated blade.creepycoug said:I have a few buddies who are timber cruisers. They worry about those things more than anything else, except for maybe weird people.
All of them carry heat into the woods, and I don't blame them. They also take dogs with them if nothing else to give them a heads up. Those things are deadly af.
There are dozens, hundreds at times, of people out walking in the northwest woods alone for work every day, almost year round, with no dog or weapons (by policy). While the number of fatal or dangerous cougar encounters is rising quickly, it's still at zero.
Dogs are nothing but cougar bait unless you have multiple noisy ones with you.
And the guy who had his stomach eaten last May? The guy on the bike? 1>0.
I'm not saying it's an epidemic; but if I'm in the woods often, I'm going to be prepped. Being eaten alive is on the creep's priority list of things to avoid.
U don't do as much field work anymore but still get out a few times a year alone and I fish alone all the time. I'm usually nervous when doing it and often joke about wearing a mask on the back of my head. I know many, many folks who are out there for 40ish hours a week though, and few who have ever seen one let alone had an encounter.
One of my friends does solo owl calling at night. He is a private contractor and does carry a pistol. The one time he pulled it was for a bear that kept circling him. Scary shit.
Cougars are well known for stalking and attacking individual dogs, wolves, and even young bears. The specialists I've talked to all agree that bringing a single dog with you, even a very large and/or vigilant one, increases your odds of being followed or even approached by a cougar. -
Tuff talk. Statistically insignificant numbers of people get bitten by white sharks, but I hard passed every invite to surf off the northern coast of California, because it does happen there.GreenRiverGatorz said:
There have only been a handful of cougar attacks, let alone fatalities, in the last 100 years in the U.S. If you're worried about cougars you're a pansy.creepycoug said:I have a few buddies who are timber cruisers. They worry about those things more than anything else, except for maybe weird people.
All of them carry heat into the woods, and I don't blame them. They also take dogs with them if nothing else to give them a heads up. Those things are deadly af.
Even Chuck acknowledged that the run-in rate with mountain lions is increasing. Plus, I saw Deliverance when I was like 11 or 12.
Do what you want. IDRGAF. I myself don't like to be in the woods w/o a gun, so I don't be in the woods w/o a gun. -
Are you related to Bob?chuck said:
That guy wasn't working unless I'm mistaken, so I'm still rightcreepycoug said:
Not sure I agree with you on that point. They hear and smell the thing long before you're in a position to say "oh shit, it's a cougar".chuck said:
I've regularly walked 1-5 miles at a time alone in the woods for work going back to the early 90s (thousands of miles by now) and have exactly one cougar encounter. It was on a short section of stream running right through a town. It ran away from me but still scared the shit out of me. I was, like everyone in my field of work, carrying a walking stick with an small hook on one end and a flimsy knife with no point and a dull, serrated blade.creepycoug said:I have a few buddies who are timber cruisers. They worry about those things more than anything else, except for maybe weird people.
All of them carry heat into the woods, and I don't blame them. They also take dogs with them if nothing else to give them a heads up. Those things are deadly af.
There are dozens, hundreds at times, of people out walking in the northwest woods alone for work every day, almost year round, with no dog or weapons (by policy). While the number of fatal or dangerous cougar encounters is rising quickly, it's still at zero.
Dogs are nothing but cougar bait unless you have multiple noisy ones with you.
And the guy who had his stomach eaten last May? The guy on the bike? 1>0.
I'm not saying it's an epidemic; but if I'm in the woods often, I'm going to be prepped. Being eaten alive is on the creep's priority list of things to avoid.
U don't do as much field work anymore but still get out a few times a year alone and I fish alone all the time. I'm usually nervous when doing it and often joke about wearing a mask on the back of my head. I know many, many folks who are out there for 40ish hours a week though, and few who have ever seen one let alone had an encounter.
One of my friends does solo owl calling at night. He is a private contractor and does carry a pistol. The one time he pulled it was for a bear that kept circling him. Scary shit.
Cougars are well known for stalking and attacking individual dogs, wolves, and even young bears. The specialists I've talked to all agree that bringing a single dog with you, even a very large and/or vigilant one, increases your odds of being followed or even approached by a cougar.
Interesting point about the dog. You don't want to attract, but our senses are so fucking dull compared to theirs, I think on balance I'd rather take on some marginal degree of probability and decrease the likelihood significantly that I'll be jumped w/o warning, thus rendering my gun useless. -
I don't want my dog hurt.
I went hiking with my wife
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I don’t have to be faster than the Cougar. I just have to be faster than You.
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Bob? Maybe?creepycoug said:
Are you related to Bob?chuck said:
That guy wasn't working unless I'm mistaken, so I'm still rightcreepycoug said:
Not sure I agree with you on that point. They hear and smell the thing long before you're in a position to say "oh shit, it's a cougar".chuck said:
I've regularly walked 1-5 miles at a time alone in the woods for work going back to the early 90s (thousands of miles by now) and have exactly one cougar encounter. It was on a short section of stream running right through a town. It ran away from me but still scared the shit out of me. I was, like everyone in my field of work, carrying a walking stick with an small hook on one end and a flimsy knife with no point and a dull, serrated blade.creepycoug said:I have a few buddies who are timber cruisers. They worry about those things more than anything else, except for maybe weird people.
All of them carry heat into the woods, and I don't blame them. They also take dogs with them if nothing else to give them a heads up. Those things are deadly af.
There are dozens, hundreds at times, of people out walking in the northwest woods alone for work every day, almost year round, with no dog or weapons (by policy). While the number of fatal or dangerous cougar encounters is rising quickly, it's still at zero.
Dogs are nothing but cougar bait unless you have multiple noisy ones with you.
And the guy who had his stomach eaten last May? The guy on the bike? 1>0.
I'm not saying it's an epidemic; but if I'm in the woods often, I'm going to be prepped. Being eaten alive is on the creep's priority list of things to avoid.
U don't do as much field work anymore but still get out a few times a year alone and I fish alone all the time. I'm usually nervous when doing it and often joke about wearing a mask on the back of my head. I know many, many folks who are out there for 40ish hours a week though, and few who have ever seen one let alone had an encounter.
One of my friends does solo owl calling at night. He is a private contractor and does carry a pistol. The one time he pulled it was for a bear that kept circling him. Scary shit.
Cougars are well known for stalking and attacking individual dogs, wolves, and even young bears. The specialists I've talked to all agree that bringing a single dog with you, even a very large and/or vigilant one, increases your odds of being followed or even approached by a cougar.
Interesting point about the dog. You don't want to attract, but our senses are so fucking dull compared to theirs, I think on balance I'd rather take on some marginal degree of probability and decrease the likelihood significantly that I'll be jumped w/o warning, thus rendering my gun useless.
Yeah I get your thinking. If you have a way to fight then any warning is helpful. Plus there's always the good chance that it's too busy killing your dog to bother with you, which is good too. -
I’m never hiking horsetooth again...MisterEm said:He is lucky it was just a little squirt. I work with CPW predator staff. Some of the big males they've collared are 2 hundo. In that region as well.
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You'd only have to worry about an old, sick, or injured cat. If you see one, it's because he/she wanted you to see them. Dogs often miss scent as they are watching from above.backthepack said:
I’m never hiking horsetooth again...MisterEm said:He is lucky it was just a little squirt. I work with CPW predator staff. Some of the big males they've collared are 2 hundo. In that region as well.
Travel in pairs and carry bear spray (yes, bear spray) and a good knife on your hip or inner thigh. Not in your backpack or faggy fanny-pack millenial cellphone shit.Make lots of noise. Announce your presence around blind corners.
We've got NPs and NFs in MT, WY and Alaska we cannot carry firearms to collect remote sensing data. "Minimum tool" analysis bologna.
Bear spray is deadly effective on wolves, bears and cats.
They go right to panic mode and bolt.
The sound of a gunshot alone can often turn a predator into kill/fight mode. When you hit them and don't kill them, it is worse. Seen it first hand with partially trapped or maimed bears.
Many large northern predators know a gunshot means a dinner bell. You may bring in more trouble to your camp the next day....even if you scared off your initial nuisance target.
