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Old August 3, 2011, 12:14 PM   #56
Wuchak
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Cougar attacks since 2001 in the US with detailed descriptions of each event.
http://http://www.cougarinfo.org/attacks3.htm

Cougar attacks in the US 1991 to 2000
http://www.cougarinfo.org/attacks2.htm

This is one cougar attack story that has stuck with me. It attacked a child on horseback that was part of a group. So much for size or numbers being a deterrent. Lots of the stories are people in a group being attacked. The cougar has no fear of hunting a group. They just look for the weakest member and an opportunity to strike.

August 19, 1996
A British Columbia mother was killed defending her 6-year-old Steven. A little after 6:00 p.m. *35 or 36-year-old Cindy Parolin and three of her four children, were still riding on horseback on the seldom traveled Tulameen River Road nearest to the tiny town of Tulameen about 30 miles northwest of Princeton, British Columbia. They were on a more than 20 mile journey to meet Cindy's husband Les at a camping site. Their horses became increasingly nervous. The cause became clear when a mountain lion was spotted. It suddenly jumped from the undergrowth at little Steven. The boy was thrown from his horse where the lion attacked him. The mother screamed at it and leapt from her horse, clubbing the lion away from her son with a branch she was able to break off. Then she continued to fight the animal and instructed her two other children to get the injured youngster to the safety of their car and then to get help. Finally, her older son found an armed camper, Jim Manion, who was led to the scene. He found Cindy still fighting the cougar more than an hour later. Much of her upper torso had been consumed. It was amazing she was still alive. She asked if her children were OK, and when Jim said yes, she said in a half-whisper, "I am dying now," and she collapsed.
Jim fired a shot to scare the lion away from Cindy's limp body. It worked, but as lion slinked toward him, his gun jammed. At the last moment, Jim got his gun cleared and fired at the charging lion without being able to aim. He hit the lion and it fled into the brush. Wildlife officials later found it where it died about 150 feet from the trail.

Cindy died from her injuries. Her son Steven made a full recovery. This male mountain lion weighed only 65 pounds though there was plenty of prey in the area.
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