Your headline commands that lions are few and far between. How rigorous is this? As a west county resident with several game cameras, I suspect this couldn't be further from the truth. We have mountain lions on our property *weekly*. This shouldn't diminish the very important need to protect and defend mountain lions and their habitat. But the suggestion that they are in grave danger of population losses and diminishment doesn't seem be close to the truth from my rural corner.
Interesting. Maybe you live in one of those territorial crossover zones. By saying "few and far between," I was actually just extrapolating from Quinton's figure of 75 mountain lions in Sonoma County as a whole. Big county, 75 lions. I wasn't meaning to imply that they're endangered--just spread out.
Got it. I had recently seen in my inbox that the Fish & Game Commission is looking to expand the mountain lion's listing as threatened or endangered - which caused me to also scratch my head... but it looks like they are specifying southern and central CA as the trouble-spot. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=239774&inline
As a LGD (Livestock Guardian Dog), Great Pyrenees owner, I have no doubts about their ability to guard and protect their charges. However, if predators, e.g. mountain lions, which often travel in groups, are known to be in the area, it is unfair to expect a single dog to stave off an attack without grievously getting hurt itself. Many LGD are used to guarding as teams with their pack. Therefore it is a good idea to have at least two, if not more LGD. (Be aware Great Pyrenees are nocturnal and their first line of defense is barking--loud barking, often at falling leaves a pasture away, off and on all night.)
Your headline commands that lions are few and far between. How rigorous is this? As a west county resident with several game cameras, I suspect this couldn't be further from the truth. We have mountain lions on our property *weekly*. This shouldn't diminish the very important need to protect and defend mountain lions and their habitat. But the suggestion that they are in grave danger of population losses and diminishment doesn't seem be close to the truth from my rural corner.
Interesting. Maybe you live in one of those territorial crossover zones. By saying "few and far between," I was actually just extrapolating from Quinton's figure of 75 mountain lions in Sonoma County as a whole. Big county, 75 lions. I wasn't meaning to imply that they're endangered--just spread out.
Got it. I had recently seen in my inbox that the Fish & Game Commission is looking to expand the mountain lion's listing as threatened or endangered - which caused me to also scratch my head... but it looks like they are specifying southern and central CA as the trouble-spot. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=239774&inline
As a LGD (Livestock Guardian Dog), Great Pyrenees owner, I have no doubts about their ability to guard and protect their charges. However, if predators, e.g. mountain lions, which often travel in groups, are known to be in the area, it is unfair to expect a single dog to stave off an attack without grievously getting hurt itself. Many LGD are used to guarding as teams with their pack. Therefore it is a good idea to have at least two, if not more LGD. (Be aware Great Pyrenees are nocturnal and their first line of defense is barking--loud barking, often at falling leaves a pasture away, off and on all night.)