Fatal mountain lion attack Colorado

[waspocrew]

Sad to hear.

We have a lot of lions at my parents ranch in WY. I ran into a pair while shed hunting a canyon. Heard branches/bushes moving and looked out to see two young lions running away 50-75 yards in front of me. I had no firearms on me and now make it a habit to have a pistol with me at all times.

Just a couple of weeks ago, we were going through a drainage to reach a herd of elk. I looked down and saw that we weren’t the only ones using this drainage recently.



Hoping we will get some decent snow soon so we can pull a few cats out of there. Here’s two my brothers took a couple of years ago

 

[KLUNATIC]

The fact that they are looking for DNA “in it” says that the cat they are looking for consumed her. They say if a cat they kill doesn’t have human DNA in it they will continue looking for another cat. That tells me whichever lion killed her also ate on her.

“which lion might have human remains in it”

Keywords “in it” not on it.

You're one of "those" that can't admit when you are wrong, you just want to troll people. Got it. You don't know if the lion fed on her, at this point no one does. You are assuming and you know what they say about assuming.

The key is not trying to be smart ass.

 

[WeiserBucks]

The lions are thick around my house. There was guy that lived a couple house down from me that was a USFW hunter and he lived to hunt lions. He asked me to go with him a few times but I'm not a horse guy. He used to have a pet lion that rode around on the back of the seat in his station wagon, That drew a few stares! He gave me a couple copies of the book he wrote of his hunting experiences, I don't know if one could find any copies anymore but it is a good read, Titled " Brave and other stories" by Steve M Matthes.

My family got a few dogs from Steve's line through Dick Muldoon after Steve passed.

 

[Pharmseller]

Got you on this one. The legal term “attempted murder” is the same way and is considered a perfectly valid term.

I’m gonna disagree with you on this one. Legally you have attempted murder and murder.

Not attempted murder and successful murder. Murder is just murder.

So you have attempted killing and killing. Not attempted killing and successful killing.

 

[Mtndawger]

Are there any accounts of a person successfully fighting off an adult mountain lion attack? It happens with bears, don't remember hearing anything lion wise.

Several years ago a male trail runner near Fort Collins successfully fought off a lion.

 

[huntsman22]

If I remember right, the lion that guy killed was only 27 pounds, no adult...... A 27 pound lion has little experience in the killing department. He'da played hell fighting off a bobcat of equal weight, as it would have been killing since it was a yonker....

 

[omicron1792]

I’m gonna disagree with you on this one. Legally you have attempted murder and murder.

Not attempted murder and successful murder. Murder is just murder.

So you have attempted killing and killing. Not attempted killing and successful killing.

You can certainly be unsuccessful at killing.

 

[KLUNATIC]

You're one of "those" that can't admit when you are wrong, you just want to troll people. Got it. You don't know if the lion fed on her, at this point no one does. You are assuming and you know what they say about assuming.

The key is not trying to be smart ass.

Yes BBob as my grandfather would say it's better to say nothing, rather than open you mouth and prove to everyone you truly don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Taudisio]

Yes BBob as my grandfather would say it's better to say nothing, rather than open you mouth and prove to everyone you truly don't know what you're talking about.

Are you talking to yourself?

 

[Jason Snyder]

They won’t just look for DNA “in” the lions. They will necropsy the stomach content and will also do swabs of the claws/teeth for any human DNA.

 

[Kenn]

Those statistics aren't very accurate... I always hear that about sharks (I live in florida) well my chances of getting ripped apart by a bull shark are much higher while swimming in the gulf but these numbers get skewed when you add the population of the entire united states even though 99% of them will have 0% chance of encountering a shark. same goes for lion / bears whatever. Your chances are way high if you live in an area with them and spend time in the woods.

I agree completely. To make a statistic like that valid it would have to indicate on average how many hours you have to spend in shark infested waters/cougar country before you're likely to be attacked. Probably an impossible task but then it would be useful.

 

[bigv]

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. If one does get successfully killed by a mountain lion, its almost certainly over in a matter of seconds from the time the attack is initiated. If given a choice, I'd take death by mtn lion over quite a few other options.

You sure see things half full! Being killed by a large cat would NOT be a fair way to go. It would be a fight...you'd be scratched to hell and have either your throat crushed and suffocate or the back of your neck crushed and go paralyzed. Not sure how anyone can think they'd take that over other options. Any death by wild animal would NOT be pleasant.

 

[wesfromky]

Any death by wild animal would NOT be pleasant.

"It was a good death"
One Stab.

 

[Kenn]

I've never seen a mt. lion make a kill but I can tell you that an African lion kill is not quick and easy. I've watched them play with an impala like a house cat plays with mice before killing it. They also don't care if it's dead before they start eating. It won't be the method I choose if I decide to end it all.

 

[Pacific_Fork]

You sure see things half full! Being killed by a large cat would NOT be a fair way to go. It would be a fight...you'd be scratched to hell and have either your throat crushed and suffocate or the back of your neck crushed and go paralyzed. Not sure how anyone can think they'd take that over other options. Any death by wild animal would NOT be pleasant.

This x100. Its so obvious. Watch any video of a lion, bear, etc taking down an ungulate. People here acting like its pounce and dead in seconds are hilariously delusional. I'd rather go by car accident, heart attack, bullet, coming home to early, you name it, over a mountain lion pouncing on my back digging claws into my body and holding my neck with its teeth for minutes of torture in fear thinking about whats happening before I suffocate.

Id like to think Id put up a good fight tho. Like an armbar or rear naked choke, speaking of delusional...

 

[Poser]

You sure see things half full! Being killed by a large cat would NOT be a fair way to go. It would be a fight...you'd be scratched to hell and have either your throat crushed and suffocate or the back of your neck crushed and go paralyzed. Not sure how anyone can think they'd take that over other options. Any death by wild animal would NOT be pleasant.

A short lists of deaths worse than death by mtn lion:

1. Cats are "throat killers." Any predator that is a "gut killer" will be far worse. For example, death by pack of Hyenas.

2. Acute radiation syndrome. Your skin falls off, your internal organs liquefy...

3. Positional Asphyxia. Getting stuck upside own while spelunking and experiencing death over the course of, say 25, hours.

4. Steam Burns from, say, a boiler explosion. Some say this is worse than death by flame as the neve endings remain intact for longer.

5. Rabies. You become terrified of water —your throat spasms violently if you try to drink. You experience intense mania, hallucinations, and anxiety. You are essentially trapped in a body that is going insane, and you are often conscious/lucid between the seizures until the very end.

6. Burning at the stake. Slow and tortuous, starting with the feet. I once read a book about torture and the chapter on burning people alive was fairly terrifying.

Death by Mtn Lion is a warriors death for most any person: You instinctually fight back, you get pumped full of adrenaline to the extent that you probably feel very little to no actual pain. When I got bite by a shark, I had to swim about 300 yards back to the beach where I promptly projective vomited from anaerobic redlining (I was concerned about bleeding out and thinking that my blood would attract more sharks so I swam my ass off) , pogo stick it across the beach, up a sand dune and down the other side to get help. The pain didn't start setting in until the first responders had wrapped up the wound and I was on the way to the ER. An adrenaline spike to that extent is a wild experience and I've never experienced anything like it. I'm not romanticizing death by mtn lion by extent, but, given a choice, I'd take it over the 6 listed and, while perhaps naive since I've never been attacked by a mtn lion, as a shark attack "survivor", I'd take death by mtn lion over death by shark as well.

 

[bigv]

dude I think you have too much time on your hands!

 

[Pacific_Fork]

If I had 1/100 of that time I’d post the Billy Madison meme

 

[cnelk]

The CPW did not / cannot locate a 3rd lion in the vicinity of the attack.

Hiking trails have been re-opened

 

[cnelk]

Local news has confirmed the cause of death is consistent with a mtn lion attack.

https://kdvr.com/news/local/woman-identified-in-deadly-mountain-lion-attack-search-called-off-for-third-lion/