AR-News: (US CA) Occidental cat keepers share mountain lion tips

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

January 19, 2004 
By CAROL BENFELL
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT 

When confronted by a mountain lion, don't follow instinct and run -- the best 
response instead is to stand tall, talk loud and, if attacked, stick a finger 
in the animal's nose. 
That advice came Sunday from Barbara and Rob Dicely, an Occidental couple who 
own and display wild cats for educational purposes, when they showed their 
big cats and talked about mountain lions at the Sebastopol Community Center. 
Barbara Dicely pointed out that a person in the wilderness is safer from 
mountain lions than a person in the city of Oakland is from other people. Only 17 
people have been killed by mountain lions in the past 100 years in California, 
while 114 died at the hands of others last year in Oakland.


full story:

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/19cats_b1.html



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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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