I might be able to offer some advice. Part of the volunteer wildlife rescue business is that we have to capture a mountain lion once or twice each year.
Yup! I married a veterinarian a while back who got involved with animal rescues for the city and then Game and Fish, and things kept expanding from that point. Oryx were introduced to this area half a century ago and mostly they call us to take our horses out to rope them when they wander into town. Other than that, we collect bobcats and bring in injured grey foxes, coyotes, roadrunners (beep! beep!) owls, eagles and the occasional mountain lion. I’m black belt seventh dan in Kyokushin Karate with additional black belts in kendo and Iaido, so I’m the designated ‘grab em’ guy. My Lady Vet taught me that every animal has a range of motion based on their joint range and bone size that you can use to immobilize them, what I call ‘The Ancient Veterinary Arts’
We have full equipment including two horses (a quarter horse and a Belgian) a modified horse trailer and a Hummer H-1 Alpha Wagon stuffed full of medical equipment, capture gear, collapsible cages and squeaky toys. One hazard of animal rescues is that we now have three house foxes. Jessica Greyfox and Misty Greyfox are both deaf while Melody Blackfox was injured as a kit and never learned to hunt (inside joke – Melody Blackfox is also my sister’s name!)
Mountain Lions are large and actually easier to subdue if you know how, and they don’t panic easily. My first capture was a young female who wandered into a neighbor’s kitchen to steal potato knishes and I caught her in a periwinkle blue baby blanket. She was hungry, thirsty and inexperienced and seemed almost happy to get caught. I was barefoot and my vet was wearing only an oversized Ski Apache sweatshirt but she was worried that the police would just shoot her if we didn’t have her restrained before they arrived. It helps in such situations not to have time to think about what you’re doing. And that’s the details.
Yikes! Poor Delphi! Poor cat!
Yeah he deserved getting scratched up!
*pulls out fire hose* Give it here, Spot…
Okay Ainsley…how did you get a hold of my script? 🙂
They are trying so hard too.
I might be able to offer some advice. Part of the volunteer wildlife rescue business is that we have to capture a mountain lion once or twice each year.
Is this true? If so….details please. I’m intrigued. If false, “Nice one.” 🙂
Yup! I married a veterinarian a while back who got involved with animal rescues for the city and then Game and Fish, and things kept expanding from that point. Oryx were introduced to this area half a century ago and mostly they call us to take our horses out to rope them when they wander into town. Other than that, we collect bobcats and bring in injured grey foxes, coyotes, roadrunners (beep! beep!) owls, eagles and the occasional mountain lion. I’m black belt seventh dan in Kyokushin Karate with additional black belts in kendo and Iaido, so I’m the designated ‘grab em’ guy. My Lady Vet taught me that every animal has a range of motion based on their joint range and bone size that you can use to immobilize them, what I call ‘The Ancient Veterinary Arts’
We have full equipment including two horses (a quarter horse and a Belgian) a modified horse trailer and a Hummer H-1 Alpha Wagon stuffed full of medical equipment, capture gear, collapsible cages and squeaky toys. One hazard of animal rescues is that we now have three house foxes. Jessica Greyfox and Misty Greyfox are both deaf while Melody Blackfox was injured as a kit and never learned to hunt (inside joke – Melody Blackfox is also my sister’s name!)
Mountain Lions are large and actually easier to subdue if you know how, and they don’t panic easily. My first capture was a young female who wandered into a neighbor’s kitchen to steal potato knishes and I caught her in a periwinkle blue baby blanket. She was hungry, thirsty and inexperienced and seemed almost happy to get caught. I was barefoot and my vet was wearing only an oversized Ski Apache sweatshirt but she was worried that the police would just shoot her if we didn’t have her restrained before they arrived. It helps in such situations not to have time to think about what you’re doing. And that’s the details.
-Mouth drops- Wow! Literally.