i saw a mountain lion on the way to work yesterday!

[Gato Moteado]

it was on 290 between houston and austin just walking along a field about 100 feet off the road.

[GOPisEvil]

1. He wasn't there Sunday. I had my eyes open for a mtn. lion!

Just kidding.

Holy smokes! A mountain lion? Wow...who knew?

[Lost4words]

2. very cool!

did you give the cat directions to Crawford?

[Superfly]

3. Would you call it a mountain lion

seeing as how there are no mountains between Austin and Houston?

[Gato Moteado]

4. good point.....

we can call it a cougar, puma, panther. or we can use binomial nomenclature and label it Felis concolor. but a mountain lion by any other name is still a mountain lion.

[Superfly]

6. I was just pulling your leg...

That's great that you saw it. Those beautiful creatures are becoming more and more threatened as man encroaches into the wild with condos and golf courses.

[Robb]

15. You know,

I worked on a golf course out here awhile back. Never saw a mountain lion there (although I saw plenty on the way to work, as well as this wild turkey group that always seemed to hang out in the same place).

I remember one beautiful morning where I had to run a golf cart out to the mid-course snack shack at sunrise. There was a family of coyotes trotting across the 7th hole, mom and about six babies. Man, what pretty animals... made me appreciate the importance of keeping a collar on my red Siberian Huskies, especially around here. From horseback, I'd bet money a rancher would take them for a "target of opportunity". :)

[slackmaster]

14. According to Linus in the Peanuts comic strip...

That would be a gulley cat.

[GOPisEvil]

5. Hill lion just doesn't roll off the tongue as well.

;-)

[commander bunnypants]

7. Congrads

I hope the Cat lives in peace. Not much land left for them. Ignorant humans.


DDQM

[Superfly]

8. Of which, I presume,

you are one?

[commander bunnypants]

9. Umh.

Yea I guess. I try not to be.

DDQM

[commander bunnypants]

11. Seabastian CattButt is gonna kick your ass

Skittles?


DDQM

[Gato Moteado]

10. there was nothing but cattle farms in the area....

....so i assume the cat is not long for this world. unfortunately, there's no current protection on pumas here in texas as they are considered "vermin" and they can be shot or poisoned in any season. it's really ridiculous....i can't wait to get out of this hellhole.

[CanuckAmok]

12. Really? How do you know he was on his way to work?

Wall Street Journal clenched in one front paw? Travel mug full of steaming goat's blood?

[commander bunnypants]

13. MMMMMMMM

Steaming goat's blood.



DDQM

[lpbk2713]

16. It is truly surprising

that in today's economy a mountain lion could find worthwhile employment. Must be a freeper with connections.