At 3:06 PM +0000 26/3/99, BRADFORD R. CRAIN wrote: > I just purchased a new seakayaking book. It says that of the >approximately 60 reported cases of cougar attacks in North America, >one-half have occurred on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. >Are Vancouver Island cougars really that inhospitable? Can anybody >substantiate these numbers? Last year a cougar wandered into a plastics manufacturing plant across the street from my apartment.I think the factory workers were more inhospitalbe than the cougar. They locked it in a room and called animal control. A few years before that, about 6 blocks from my apartment, a cougar wandered into the parkade of the expensive downtown hotel "The Empress" on the waterfront main drag. These are both downtown Victoria locations. Poor lost and terrified cougars. A few years ago while my son was at camp just outside of Victoria, in the Sooke Hills, a campmate was attacked by a cougar but a camp counsellor drove it off. Recently a youngster was killed in a northern Island town on his way to school. This last summer there was a cougar alert at Royal Roads University where I sometimes run on the forest paths. I ran quite fast that day! I don't have the statistics but cougars are relatively commonly sighted on the island. I recall an article recently in the local paper (the Times-Colonist - what a name, hey) about this topic. There was a photo from the archives of three cougar hunters with their dead cougars in front of them. Dead beauty. There was a bounty on them. What's the book? Diane McNally Victoria *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Mar 26 1999 - 17:53:03 PST
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