Your favorite wildlife encounters and wi shlist

“A jaguar would be cool. When I dated my little Dutch boy a couple yrs., his parents came to visit us in WY. We took them for a drive to the Park (Yellowstone). On the way we passed a road kill skunk. His mom started freaking out and cursing about whatever that horrible smell was. I told her and she didn't get it. So he explained in Dutch. It turns out that in all her life she had never known that a skunk had a stink. She'd only seen them in the zoo, w/ the glands removed. LOL!”

“Mountain lions are not exactly an endangered species anymore, actually they are creating lots of problems. The cat's in Lassen had their own turf for years..in the surrounding ares the population of cats and people has grown immensely...they are showing up in school yards, stealing cat/dog food off porches and even been seen walking down streets in town....these animals are not to be confused with cats that have a large established turf, almost all the "problem" cats have been young males trying to establish themselves. I have a friend who was raising goats near Shingletown, just outside of Lassen...Fish and Game had to trap 4 cats before they finally just told him to shoot the things...he actually was "charged" by a small male just before he shot it, very uncommon behavior (the cats, not his)

We searched for hours one night for a "woman in distress", before we realized that what the reporting party had heard was a wail from a mountain lion...it is a really scary sound, even when you know what it is.....funny, we never heard that sound from the Lassen cats.

spirit coyote....getting chased by a 700lb Elk definitely counts as a wildlife encounter...close encounter of the running kind......”

“There's a large cat sanctuary here in Tell City, IN where I live. When I was working for the newspaper I got to go in the cage with several of the cats. An African Lioness, Black Panther, Cougar and a Siberian Tiger. Awesome experience. They're all tame, but still very scary.

The cats were rescued from situations where they faced being put down. They are well taken care of and the small sanctuary run by a local couple is gov. approved and funded.

The cats have large areas to play climb and swim outdoors and move from inside the owners home to outside through a network of plastic tunnels.”

“yeah....next time when a sign tells me not to appraoch em on foot i wont!”

“Spirit, you are too funny. You remind me of the Japanese tourists in Yellowstone. LOL! (I'm only kidding.)”

“Seeing a bull moose from six feet away, within fifteen minutes of the start of my very first backpacking experience.

Five-six years ago, sighting a cougar crossing the road after we'd driven by, at 3am...where no one thought there were any, until last year.

Having a red fox follow us for three miles.

Seeing a pair of eagles in a tree together and hearing them call

Listening to Beavers being busy in a nearby lake all night.

Osprey and loons diving. Cormarants running on the water.

Having a beautiful lizard jump on my head.

Watching a coyote dive for a field mouse.

I could go on and on.”

“lol newgirl. I had a friend that worked in Yellowstone for a couple summers. Always had funny stories about the tourists. One came up to her one time and asked what time they let the elk out. lol”

“"Spirit, you are too funny. You remind me of the Japanese tourists in Yellowstone. LOL! (I'm only kidding.)" . . . newgirl

LOL! Newgirl's talking about meeeee ”