September 3, 2009
I’m Good. I’m Uhhhh Faster than a Bear.
As we head into Labor Day weekend, I think it’s best to review the hardhitting journalism used in this piece about our relationship to wild natural life near our homes.
Folks, stay safe and informed of all the permutations of wild and domestic creatures.
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You want to see some strident journalism, dig this coverage of the April 2008 shooting of a cougar in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood. Of course, in the Chicago instance, the cougar was not only real but shot really and sincerely dead.
Curious facts to know and tell: (1) The ‘Chicago cougar’ was killed in April 2008 about a block from where I’d rented an office a few years earlier. (2) Its DNA matched that of a large cat spotted in Wisconsin in January or February 2008, not far from the Illinois-Wisconsin boundary, a cat who’d left blood samples in a barn as it leapt out of the building in flight. (3) Right around the preceding Christmas (December 2007), out behind my house in northwestern Illinois, I spotted and photographed (badly, sad to say) big footprints that I think were feline, not canine.
No real point to all that. Just wondering if out here in my rural neighborhood I had been stalking a cat who was finally killed in an old urban neighborhood of mine.
And to say this: Big cats are traveling from the West to the East, y’all.
I think it’s great.
But I hate perky TV reporters who talk about big cats and bears in that smirking tone. Whether they are real or not-real.
And Fox (!) News does not help us in trying to distinguish between the real bears (or cats) and those that are ‘not-real’.
Excuse me. I have to go phone the authorities. I think my neighbor might be a terrorist. Okay, someone I think I might have seen in the vicinity of a house that’s near mine.
Better safe than sorry.
she found bear scat!
We get Fox News here in the UK – am I getting a balanced view of America?
Oddly enough, Phil, I fear that you are.
OMG, TITFF, ILMAO, HAHAHA!
We’ve had some mountain lion sitings in town, supposedly some guy at one of the stores has pics.
That person working the cardboard bear up the tree has a future.
High Art disguised as Fox News. Sometimes I wonder who the genius is behind it all.