Yesterday, I was hailed by a neighbor to stop. Cringing, I expected to hear that my kids had destroyed something or that my dog was harrassing their dog. But I recieved even scarier news than that. A cougar had been spotted on his property trying to kill his dog! My children's bus stop is on his property! The cougar was out at 7:15 in the morning, the exact time my kids get on the bus. Needless to say I was a little unnerved. It gets better...our dog has been missing since friday morning...Roman, not Wilson. A cougar can kill a horse, cow, elk, a dog, a small curly headed child!
So now this gun hating democrat is going to learn how to load a shotgun today incase she needs to blow the hind quarters of a cougar off to save her child, or goat or whatever....
PS...my kids are driven to the bus stop in the morning by their father or me now...it's a 15 minute walk through forest to get to their stop! Too many risks for me. I might be picking them up too...
3 comments:
Can you arm your kids with pepper spray at the bus stop or something? (would pepper spray even stop a cougar?) Yikes! We have coyotes that have been roaming the neighborhood eating cats and I even saw one behind our house a couple weeks ago, but a cougar? I'll take the coyotes, thank you.
Yikes! I guess that is certainly one down side to living out in the boonies. I'll bring that up the next time my husband starts lobbying for the quiet country life.
I expect a picture of Emily armed to the teeth defending her brood after your new skill is in place. I can see it all now. Driving the kidlets to the bus seems a wise interim move! Like maybe for the next 10 years:) Mom
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