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The lion that took two of our daughter's goats was thought to be a young 
one.  First off, he could not drag the goat back over the 5-foot fence 
enclosing the goats.  He jumped in, broke the goat's neck, but hadn't the 
strength or experience to get it over the fence to the outside.  When he 
came back the second time, he just ate part of it right in the pen with all 
the other goats.
There certainly are plenty of deer, said to be their favorite food, to keep 
any lion happy around here.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: [RC] Mtn Lions/goats/possible good news


> I went to a talk about Mtn Lions and a study in Arizona was quoted and the
> study found that it is typically young mtn lions that take goats and small
> livestock.  The good news is that they may be taking over new territory 
> and
> one they mature it is unlikely that they will take small livestock again,
> but they will protect their territory so it may be many years before small
> livestock is taken again....  So you may have your own "guard mtn lion" 
> for
> many years to come and no loss of livestock.  I am not making light of the
> issue of losing livestock by any means just trying to pass information
> along.



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