"Don Freeman" wrote in message
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"Rodney Long" wrote in message
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Don Freeman wrote:

Doing a search on "aggressive" and "cottonmouth" I find a lot of
disparity in opinions on wither the cottonmouth is actually aggressive
or not. Looking closer at the sources I find that the more reliable ones
(as opposed to joe blows blog site) tend to support the position that
its aggressive nature is not deserved.

Man that sounds like the shark huggers (naturalist) who claim bull sharks
are not aggressive, they mistake humans for fish.

A couple of naturalist were proving that very fact a couple of years ago,
in knee deep water, with bull sharks all around them, and guess what? one
of them got nailed! on camera, yet they still claimed they are not
aggressive

Well duh, and if you walk into a pit of even the most timid snakes you are
bound to annoy at least one of them.


California banned cougar hunting a few years back, and now people are
dying, while they are jogging in their neighborhoods


Oh yeah, they're killing us left and right out here, can't walk to the
corner market without being attacked. That's why there are so many
humvees and other forms of SUVs in my neighborhood: to protects us from
all the unwarranted feline attention.

For a little perspective:
http://california.sierraclub.org/mou...on/safety.html

"Your risk of being injured or killed by a mountain lion is infinitesimal.
There have been only 13 fatal mountain lion attacks in all of North
America in the last 100 years. Eleven of the fatal attacks occurred in
western states and provinces where trophy hunting of lions is allowed.
According to the Department of Fish and Game's own records, in the last 20
years more than 85 people have died and 700 people have been injured in
hunting accidents in California. For every person killed by a mountain
lion in the last century, 300 people have been killed by bees,. 750 people
have died when their cars collided with deer, 1200 people have been killed
by lightning, and more than 1100 people were killed in hunting-related
accidents. Hunting presents a much greater threat to public safety than
mountain lions."

My feelings on the matter is from personal experience, not based on what
I have read somewhere, and I would bet Joe Blow's Blog site is based on
the same thing, his personal experiences


More likely to have been based on apocryphal/anecdotal incidences.
Which, ironically enough, turns this thread on-topic for this group.

--
-Don "whose signature link is even more appropriate" Freeman
http://cosmoslair.com/BadDay.html ?
(Eating the elephant outside the box, one paradigm at a time)


And the Sierra club is full of ****! There were only about 2 deaths from
Mt. Lions until they were put on the protected list. They are not
endangered, they are fairly common. They have about wiped out the
California Big Horn sheep in a few areas. We a lot living in the San
Francisco Bay area hills.