Just in the past few days there have been more and more mountain lion sightings.
First it was near Memorial Park in Omaha and police spent 5 days searching. Several officers reported seeing the cat. They even used the police helicopter!
Then it was in South Omaha.
Then 2 ladies in midtown Omaha called in to report the mountain 1 minute apart from each other. The 2 ladies live about half a block from each other. There is perfect evidence that there may be a mountain lion around.
The wierd thing is that nobody has seen any tracks that resemble those of a mountain lion![:0][}:)] More news about the mountain lion as it is reported.
I can see it now: Marlin Perkins, Jack Hanna and Mutual of Omaha on a cross country Safari in Nebraska’s hometown backyard wild country, behind the McDonald’s at Ashland, NE on the Platte River. And Willy2, the latest “Kitty” is wearing Nike’s! (Puma didn’t pay a big enough endorsement fee…)
Let me see now, cougars in Omaha, Elk at Edson, Ks, seagulls in Denver. Could we next send you some of our wayward black bears that wore out their welcome here ? They have already gotten to within 50 miles of the Colorado-Kansas border so far…
Mudchicken
(In hiding after 11/15 - Pheasant Season!)
ps - reluctant to do survey work in eastern Nebraska unless I can shoot back at the enebriated clown shooting at me! (from a p/u truck no less!)…Have the leaves all fallen there yet? Do elk go “moo” in Nebraska too? …mudCHICKEN
[}:)] Mookie would just love to have the chicken come to Nebraska in any season…hee hee - here birdy, birdy…
The last elk to go moo went west - probably into Colorado.
We still have all our leaves - so stay in your henhouse a little longer. And that silly yellow and orange you probably wear looks like the BNSF coming through the woods - I’d shoot at it too - thinking it is a big SD70 - coming off the tracks to get me!
Mookster - in the part of the US where you can go out your front porch and pick up a paper and not fall down into a ravine!
We get mountain lion sightings here a lot. Most of the outlying housing developments are built right at the edge of the wild. So there is not “transition zone” from suburb to wilderness. Its often right on the otherside of someones backyard fence.
So when a big putty-tat comes down out of the foothills and turns Binky the Chihuahua into an appetizer who gets the blame? not the greedy developers who plopped the housing tract out in the middle of no-where, not the stupid people who bought out in the middle of no-where, its the poor putty-tat whos only doing what comes naturally to himself, and thats the real crime.
Kitty-close-encounter-of-the-good-kind:
On day a couple of years ago I’m out riding on my mountain bike up Telegraph road at Chino Hills State Park. As I’m cruising up the hill I see moving down the road what I thought was a dog. Then I realized it was a bobcat, a good sized one too. He was slinking right down the middle of the road apparently following something off the side of the road. Well I stopped right in the middle of the road. If I moved I might panic the kitty, so I got of the bike and with the bike between me and the kitty, I just kept saying “nice kitty” as long as he knew I wasnt a threat he ignored me and kept walking down the road while looking off to the side. He walked right by me no more than a YARD away and kept right on down the road until I lost sight of him. That was cool.
Kitty-close encounter-of-the-bad-kind:
Two friends are coming down the Sam Merrill trail near Mt. Wilson they are seperated by a good distance. The lead rider comes around a curve and is face to face with a mountain lion coming up the trail, hes yells, “Oh sh##” real loud and slams the brakes skidding wildly, that scares the cat who bolts off the trail and disappears into the brush. Saken but not stirred ,the first rider starts off again. Shortly after he hears what he thinks is his buddy behind him, looks back and see’s the mountain lion following
(1) Now wondering if all the predators are heading to Omaha to get even with Mutual of Omaha, Marlin Perkins, Jack Hanna and all those gun toting Nebraskans!
(2) Do kevlar FLAK Jackets come in Safety Orange? With yellow reflective tape? (did get shot at last year twice during deer season while doing what mudchickens do at Paront, MO and Hollenberg, KS … not fun at all)
(3) Only Mookie would understand how mudchicken could be mistaken for an SD-70 in Heritage II paint. She already knows the dirty bird in field garb looks like a pumpkin on steroids…
(4) Ever discover by accident that you were sharing the same pasture with buffalo?
(5) Now that anything that goes “moo” has headed well west of Lincoln, what do Huskers do now that they can’t go cow-tipping anymore?
Glad to see your funnybone was not surgically removed! Like the purple dye? Went through a similar EKG episode 3 years ago only to find out that the nervous system wasn’t quite wired correctly.
Only #4 - shared the pasture with a bull one time. He didn’t think the Mookie was funny at all!
Notice you got shot at in KS and MO - but a bit of advice - you should wear red with a big N on it - when in Nebraska - not KS or MO! If you wear red and a big N in Nebraska, they would feed you!!!
#5 - they still drink beer and eat! And criticize the coach and some players. Not too much difference!
They by-passed the funny bone - in fact in surgical room - on table - I got to laughing at the nurses so hard nearly fell off table. They had to belt me on! Sure did make their day!