Petting Mountain Lion Cubs: Cute in Theory, Bad Idea in Reality

mountainlioncub.jpgMountain Lion cubs are adorable. But beware when you pet them, their mother might lash out as one did today when a hiker on the Borrego Trail in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park (Orange County) did just that. Luckily, today's "attack," as KNX1070 is calling it, was only a scratch. We would call it self defense as the human was the one who approached the cubs, even if with harmless intentions. The park is currently closed as Park rangers, sheriff's deputies and the Department of Fish and Game search the area.

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Talk about natural selection. Where there are cute babies, there are angry moms. (And never feed a bear a marshmallow like this...)

Whiting Ranch... isn't that the same place the mountain bikers were attacked by a puma several years ago? A male rider was killed and a woman barely escaped the same fate.

Sounds like a good place to avoid.

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