Where is your gun when you kids is in the mouth of a mountain lion?

Seventeen stitches is a relatively minor wound.

Two female bicyclists were attacked a few years ago and one was pretty much ground up by a mountain lion.

Not something you ever want to see.

If he was on my child ( or anyone else for that matter),I'd put the barrel right to the lion's ear and send the lion on his way.

I don't take any animals lightly ever.
 
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Yup, ya gotta look out for that crazy guy in post #3 for sure, but even there, it was about tactics on how to shoot and kill an attacking animal with a gun. I think we get the point, there is a new rabies vaccine out there.

Growing up in Alaska, it was just common practice to always have a rifle in the car wherever we went. Usually that was my dad's 30-06 bolt action rifle. With mountain lions being thin skinned, even a .22 LR can be lethal protection but for sure wouldn't be my first choice. My .357 SP101 would be more than enough gun in the circumstance above.
 
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B.N.Real
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Seventeen stitches is a relatively minor wound.

Two female bicyclists were attacked a few years ago and one was pretty much ground up by a mountain lion.

Not something you ever want to see.

In he was on my child ( or anyone else for that matter),I'd put the barrel right to the lion's ear and send the lion on his way.

I don't take any animals lightly ever.
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Not sure if you are referring to the event near LA where two woman were attacked and a man prior to that killed by the same mountain lion.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/national/main592433.shtml

The lion had attacked and partially eaten the first victim and would have gone for more. The police tracked it down and shot it later that night.
 
Well,I appreciate what you are saying but I want the cat off my kid as soon as possible.

All cats have a nasty habit of running their jaws around their prey and yanking away from it,doing hideous damage.

As far as rabies shots go,I think a doctor would pretty much want that done in a bad attack anyway would'nt he?

I ,in no way discount, what you are saying Alaska.

And the attack you are referrring too is way worse then the one I am talking about.

So that makes it two in the last few years.

In the attack I'm talking about,both cyclists survived though one was horribly permanently torn up.

The other female cyclist,her friend saved her life by getting help.
 
Today, 07:59 PM #24
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Well,I appreciate what you are saying but I want the cat off my kid as soon as possible.

All cats have a nasty habit of running their jaws around their prey and yanking away from it,doing hideous damage.

As far as rabies shots go,I think a doctor would pretty much want that done in a bad attack anyway would'nt he?

I ,in no way discount, what you are saying Alaska.

And the attack you are referrring too is way worse then the one I am talking about.

So that makes it two in the last few years.

In the attack I'm talking about,both cyclists survived though one was horribly permanently torn up.

The other female cyclist,her friend saved her life by getting help.
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I never prescribed rabies vaccine ever in my career and likely with the implications of rabies have referred them to an infectious disease doctor, but most often, if a specimen is available, they will start the series while examining the animal. If negative for rabies, they can opt to stop the rest of the series.

http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/testing.html
 
My brother is a veterinarian, and when he was bitten by a potentially-rabid animal, he was given the shot series (the old painful ones - this was in the early 80s) while awaiting the results of the test. He said that based on how long the results took to come back, it was probably a good idea.
 
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