El Dorado County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a report of a mountain lion attack in a remote area near Georgetown at around 1:15 p.m. local time. They said it was in the area of Darling Ridge Road and Skid Road.
The report came from an 18-year-old man who said a mountain lion attacked him and his 21-year-old brother while they were antler shed hunting. The teen said he had injuries to his face and was separated from his brother during the attack.
Shortly after 1:30 p.m., the 18-year-old was contacted while deputies searched for his brother. About 15 minutes later, deputies found a crouched mountain lion next to the victim on the ground.
Deputies fired their guns to scare the mountain lion off but once the mountain lion ran off, the 21-year-old was pronounced dead. He has not been identified.
The teen was taken to the hospital for treatment.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife responded to the area and is working to find the mountain lion.
Georgetown is located about 50 miles northeast of Sacramento.
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C’mon Fuzzy, It says right here “they” killed it. It even gives their badge numbers.
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Pete
Pretty sad that hunters come on a thread about the unfortunate death of a fellow hunter and their first thought is "cool, an opportunity to crap on California". It is sad to see how badly our society has degraded.
And kinda interesting that while the prevailing wisdom is that small kids are at the greatest risk, there were 3 fatalities mentioned in MulePower’s link and those were a 40 YO woman and men 21 and 35, so you’d think they should’ve had better odds….
But little kids tend to have adults around to defend them, so I guess there’s that…. Don’t mess with Mama Bear…
Horrible story for sure!
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"A cougar attacked them. They fought back for 45 harrowing minutes"
https://www.kuow.org/stories/cougar-attack-washington-state-cyclists
No surprise to common sense folks that when they overpopulate and lose their fear of humans, Attacks and incidents have escalated. You will not hear about a lot of these incidents. The GW specifically told a buddy living in the foothills of Ca not to take a photo of the Cat the state trapper caught and killed 400y from his house that killed his pets right on his porch. Lucky he didnt have little kids.
The state trapper told him he had caught 20 problem lions in a 5 mile radius from his house in the last couple years.
in a completely different area above Vacaville, a rancher buddy told me they had a horrible lion problem and FG state trappers killed a dozen lions in one 5 mile long canyon.
CAFG doesn’t want people to know the extent of the problem.
It turns out this lion had been killing goats at a vineyard about ten miles from me. The goat owner called out a "lion expert" to humanely trap it and transplant it. After live trapping it he allowed the hippie goat owner and his little girl to sit outside the cage and apologize to the lion for having to trap and move it.
So basically he acclimated it to humans. This guy has approval from CDFW to catch, collar and study lions. Lord knows how many others he's helped lose their fear of humans.
And I’m not happy about ballot-box driven mismanagement of wildlife; that actually does make me kinda angry when something like this happens, but getting angry and wanting to kill them all is no more rational than wanting to protect every last one of them. That’s no different than wanting to ban gun ownership for everyone because some people who possess firearms use them to harm other people.
And not-for-nothing, but it’s kinda creepy to see prayers and tears so freely offered when the lion’s victim was a hunter out looking for sheds, but some of the same people are practically heard cackling with glee when they deem the human victim to have been too “liberal” in their politics.
I’m NOT saying that there aren’t anti-hunting types out there who are upset about this cat being killed and/or who think it’s some kind of justice for one of those nasty hunters to be killed by an “innocent” creature — I’ve never in my life seen an issue on which the hypocrisy is all one one side of it. But the antidote to hypocrisy is not more hypocrisy….
If the state is putting down as many cats every year as some folks here have suggested, I’d think it would be possible (and probably worthwhile) to file a FOIA request for the numbers on that, and figure out how much it costs property owners and taxpayers to send people out to track down Problem Cats after the fact… CA may even be sharing those numbers with other state… As they should.
And if they’re relocating any of them, then those cats need to be tagged (preferably GPS collars) so that the habits, travels and “recidivism rate” can be determined; doesn’t make much sense to pay to trap and relocate a bad ol’ putty-tat if there’s a reasonable expectation that it’s just going to be rinse & repeat….
