Because…Colorado
I have many more march photos to post, probably tonight and tomorrow. I don’t think I can get them in one post. Buoyed by all of them and can’t wait to share.
These guys were on someone’s porch this weekend.
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Because…Colorado
I have many more march photos to post, probably tonight and tomorrow. I don’t think I can get them in one post. Buoyed by all of them and can’t wait to share.
These guys were on someone’s porch this weekend.
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comrade scott's agenda of rage
*Three* young mountain lions on your porch?
Hope the owner of that porch doesn’t have any outside pets.
That photo needs a caption.
Roger Moore
Kitteh!
And how did I know that elk must be in Estes Park even before I could see the title?
BGinCHI
Store owner: “Can I help you?”
Elk: “Uh, just browsing.”
LAO
Other than the fact that I live in a city and have no front porch — those cats would have scared the shit out of me. I once watched a documentary on Netflix about how cats are never truly domesticated and would, if given the right set of circumstances, kill a human. (I exaggerate slightly).
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Tamara, can I send you one more batch of photos? I edited the ones I took with my DSLR and have about 10-15 that I think are worth looking at.
TaMara (HFG)
@LAO:
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
I would worry about where Mama was at this point. He said that he’s had full grown Mountain Lions on his porch before, too.
TaMara (HFG)
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:Pick your favorite 3 or 4 and I’ll add them.
JordanRules
I should probably take these new antlers out for a test drive before I commit.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
I found a photo caption from another “mountain lion on the porch” shot:
“Honey, what have you been feeding the cat lately? She’s gotten awfully big.”
“Visitors, mostly.”
burnspbesq
Always a good idea to stay out of the ocean in SoCal right after a big storm. God only knows what got flushed out of the river beds.
Kryptik
This reminds me of how Mythbustera tested the Bull In A China Shop idiom and saw bulls take almost perfect care not to knock anything over in the pen they tested in, even after letting loose 3 or four at a time.
The Moar You Know
I’d rather go up against the cats than a full-grown bull elk. The cats might scare off. The elk will kick you through a wall.
Brachiator
Love the bull elk photo.
I wonder how the hell he got into the shop, and what it is that he’s looking at.
Big Ole Hound
These animals are as out of place as Trump is in the white house. Just ease them all out where the belong….quickly
Cacti
Elk is delicious.
Roger Moore
@LAO:
Two points:
1) The idea that cats aren’t truly domesticated is obvious BS. They haven’t been bred for exactly the same set of traits as other domesticated animals, but they have been bred for a variety of different traits solely for human benefit. They’ve also undergone a whole set of changes (e.g. friendliness to humans, ability to get along with other cats, etc.) that make them better suited for life with people. If you compare them to wild Felis sylvestris, it’s obvious that they’re truly domesticated.
2) Dogs not only would but routinely do kill humans given the right set of circumstances, but nobody would claim they aren’t domesticated.
TaMara (HFG)
@Brachiator: That’s actually a video and the shop owner narrates the situation.
randy khan
@LAO:
But only slightly. And I speak as someone who shares his house with cats. Every once in a while you catch one looking at you in a way that makes you very happy that you’re a lot bigger than they are.
The Moar You Know
@burnspbesq: Normally they say three days. Now, I’m seeing my local river, which has never been anything that anyone outside of California would even describe as a stream, actually flowing like a river and it is SOLID brown with sediment, human excrement, fertilizer and God only knows what else. It’d take five years of this kind of rain just to clear the river beds out to the point that they were when I was a kid growing up here, and they weren’t too clean even then.
I’m not going back in the ocean until April.
Water’s been too cold anyway.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
There’s a large herd of elk in Estes Park that are quite accustomed to wandering around downtown. It’s not at all surprising that one got into one of the shops.
A Ghost To Most
I live about 15 miles south of Boulder, and we have mountain lions and bobcats wandering around at night. I always have a good look around at night before wandering out. Kittehs have a hard come inside at dusk.
Spanky
And so it continues ….
SFBayAreaGal
@randy khan: They’re probably thinking, “how the hell did this two legged rat become my so called master?”
dmsilev
I assume that just off-frame in that photo there’s a giant can being slowly opened by an equally oversized can opener.
bemused
I and spouse are now both on Medicare and supplemental plan. A couple of weeks ago I made a suggestion to my spouse that he should think about getting his hip replaced soon considering not knowing what might happen with Medicare now. His hip has been deteriorating for several years but he gets around ok, he’s on his feet a lot of the day, not yet at cane stage, but I’m sure he has pain. I made the suggestion again today a little more strongly and to think seriously about it saying repealing ACA is going to affect everything to do with healthcare and beyond.
LAO
@Roger Moore: My comment was meant to be funny — which clearly missed the mark. But, to make a serious point, the documentary “The Lion in Your Living Room” was fascinating and, without a doubt cats are more self-sufficient than dogs. Phrased differently, dogs, over the course of time, have adapted more to humans; while humans’ have adapted to cats.
Brachiator
@TaMara (HFG):
I’ll wait for the movie version. ;)
Had some computer problems accessing and posting to this thread. Will check out the video on another device.
@Roger Moore:
Ah, the elk regularly come into town to do their shopping.
“Hey, you got some of those Women’s March hats that will fit me?”
“Does this top make my antlers look big?”
Iowa Old Lady
@Spanky: That pipeline decision is not going to end well. Passions are running high even here in Iowa. Farmers hate eminent domain and environmentalists worry about the aquifer, so there’s an unusual alliance.
Yarrow
@Big Ole Hound:
So…prison for Trump?
Just One More Canuck
I grew up in Victoria (BC) and cougars regularly come down into the city to freak everyone out. Someone in my facebook feed posted pictures of eagles sitting on lamp posts on the main downtown tourist street
schrodingers_cat
@Big Ole Hound: These animals are majestic and regal. The human being you mentioned, not so much.
hovercraft
Fox’s Alveda King Insists Women’s March On Washington Got It Wrong Because Trump ‘Loves Women’
KING: You know, Mr. Trump has beautiful women in his family. They’re brilliant and beautiful. That’s a double bonus. And so he – he loves women, he works with women and I think that the ladies are missing an opportunity to get the important messages out.
KING: If you push out the pro-life message, who’s going to represent those little girls who are being aborted? I mean, I don’t understand why, if it’s a real sisterhood, how they could leave out the little babies in the womb, the mothers who’ve been hurt by abortion.
“You’re so right about that,” cohost Abby Huntsman agreed. Then she segued into supporting Sean Spicer’s illegitimate, dangerous and disingenuous attack on the media over a mistaken report (quickly corrected) that a bust of Martin Luther King had been removed from the Oval Office. “What did you make of that whole thing?” Huntsman prodded, I mean asked.
“Let’s not feel like we’re lumped in with all of that,” King replied, meaning the rest of the media.
hovercraft
After Protesters Shout At McCrory, NC Lawmaker Wants To Make It A Crime
After video posted on Facebook Friday showed a group of people in Washington, D.C. shouting at former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), a GOP state legislator introduced legislation to make shouting at a former state official a crime.
Republican state Sen. Dan Bishop, who proposed the bill, told the News and Observer that the legislation would “make it a crime to threaten, intimidate, or retaliate against a present or former North Carolina official in the course of, or on account of, the performance of his or her duties.” Bishop said that offenders of his proposed statute should serve a prison sentence up to five years.
In the video posted online Friday, a group of people shouted “shame on you” at McCrory as he walked through Washington, D.C., calling him “anti-gay” and a “bigot.”
Bishop, who was one of the sponsors of the anti-LGBT state law known as HB2, told the News and Observer that the crowd was a “a chanting mob” of “ubiquitous leftist rioters” and said that their actions were “dangerous.”
Timurid
@Iowa Old Lady:
If/when Trump reverses the Dakota pipeline decision, we’ll get our answer to the ‘what if a nonwhite group attempted the Bundy/Malheur gambit?’ question. It likely won’t be pretty…
Larkspur
So this is an open thread, and I’ve got nothing except a mild depression extending inland during the night and morning hours (that’s a SF Bay Area fog joke), but there is this: today, January 24, would have been Warren Zevon’s 70th birthday. I could go on and on about how much better it would have been for Zevon to be here celebrating than it is for a certain other 70 year old, but that’s pointless, so I’ll just remind myself and you of the important thing: ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH.
waysel
@bemused: Jump on it stat. After initial diagnosis, hip patients are required by Medicare to wait 3 months, doing some form of therapy, proving no miraculous recovery, before surgery can be performed. My wife did it last year.
hovercraft
@Iowa Old Lady:
The same thing happened with Keystone, Bold Nebraska was an amalgamation of ranchers/farmers, environmentalists, and Native Americans. Property and water rights make for very strange bedfellows.
Ridnik Chrome
I went to the You Tube page for that elk video, to read more about it, and some idiot put up a comment about “Colorado liberals welcoming elks and terrorists into their gun-free zones”. What in the world is wrong with people?
rikyrah
@hovercraft:
She is a slave catching coon.
Period.
Brachiator
@Timurid:
No, it’s not pretty at all. From various news reports.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Larkspur: You could feel the world’s collective IQ drop when he died.
Mnemosyne
@hovercraft:
So North Carolina Republicans are calling for “safe spaces” and “speech codes” for themselves?
Maybe these delicate snowflakes should withdraw from public life if their feelings are so easily bruised.
Lynn Dee
I thought for sure the elk photo must’ve been staged or photoshopped (til I hit play) — how is it he doesn’t appear to have knocked anything over?! Amazing. No bull in a china shop, he.
schrodingers_cat
Caption for the photos:
Mawm, can we bring the pet human home, he is so cute. We will squeeze him and snorgle him and call him George.
A Ghost To Most
@Lynn Dee:
In Estes Park, not amazing at all to have to avoid elk, and sometimes rocky mtn sheep.
bemused
@waysel:
Thx, I will tell him stat!
Lynn Dee
@A Ghost To Most:
My surprise, though, is not that the elk apparently strolled in but that he didn’t knock anything over. Perhaps he’s an experienced shopper?
Mnemosyne
@Lynn Dee:
Take a look on YouTube at the “bull in a china shop” episode of “Mythbusters” that was referenced above. They are actually quite graceful and careful around obstacles and have a really good sense of their size.
sherparick
Estes Park is surrounded by Rocky Mountain National Park and apparently Elk are as common as pigeons are Chicago. The Elk bulls apparently have great situational awareness with antlers as demonstrated by the way this bull moved in and out of the open door. http://www.colorado.com/events/estes-park-elk-fest
Besides belligerence toward foreign nations, the other deep seated constant belief of Trump is that nature sucks and needs to be built over or turned into a golf course. But again, Clinton had problem with e-mail management so why mention this issue.
Lynn Dee
@Mnemosyne:
Thank you — that was delightful!
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
I think they mostly just browse.
AndoChronic
How do we submit march photos? When I’ve submitted calendar photos I sent them to a separate email. Are people doing that with their march photos, or am I missing an attachment button on the front-pager contact form? I have a good one of Ilhan Omar at the St. Paul rally I’d like to share.
Roger Moore
@sherparick:
Which makes sense when you think about it. Without situational awareness of their antlers, they’d get caught on stuff all the time out in the forest, which would really suck when trying to get away from a mountain lion or wolf pack.
sukabi
Amazing that the elk has more respect for his surroundings and situational awareness than drumpf.
Cermet
@Roger Moore: I do not think you really know what the word ‘routinely* really means. It is very rare to have a dog kill a human; biting, maybe but not kill.
sukabi
@Ridnik Chrome: double dose of faux nooz and lead in their drinking water?
danielx
@Brachiator:
More to the point, how the hell did they get it out?
Miss Bianca
Ahhh…Colorado! : )
ETA: We can’t have enough “bull elk in the china shop” jokes!
BeezusQ
Ha! From MICHAEL IAN BLACK — Petition for WH to explain why Trump is a “needy little bitch.” 100k signatures required for an official response. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/explain-american-people-why-president-donald-j-trump-such-needy-little-bitch
Kelvin
@LAO: The Lion In Your Living Room.
Msb
Perhaps you people have already heard, there’s an amazing video on YouTube called “the Netherlands has a message for Donald Trump”, introducing the “tiny country” to Trump in terms he’ll understand. We need all the laughs we can get.
TheFat Kate Middleton
@Msb: Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-xxis7hDOE&ab_channel=vprozondagmetlubach
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Msb: Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-xxis7hDOE&ab_channel=vprozondagmetlubach