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Sometimes reminiscent of animal sacrifice to appease an alleged dragon. For instance, with the puma suede classic approval of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist John Thiebes, volunteer trapper Richard Stahl circa May 13 live-trapped a purported feral cat, fed the cat for three days, and then staked him out in a small cage as live bait for a puma who purportedly stalked two boys near Medford on April 3, six weeks earlier; killed several other cats; and killed a dachshund on April 29.

The ODFW, reportedly promoting an attempt to repeal a puma sneakers voter-approved 1994 ban on recreational cougar and/or bear hunting with hounds, and still smarting from FoA's successful opposition to a proposal to kill coyotes at the Antelope Mountain National Refuge, counterattacked with a press release claiming FoA had threatened to respond with either violence or a lawsuit  which one local TV station read on the air and was subsequently obliged to retract.

PUMA PANIC!!! occurred all around the west during the spring, including in Lagunitas, California, where a reported puma who kept a 32-year-old Novato man inside an outhouse all night at Samuel P. Taylor State Park may actually have been a large bobcat. In Palm Springs, California, the same day, Woody Barrett, 77, and his son Jerry, 54, wrested their nine-yearold terrier Taz from the jaws of puma ignite a puma, a female who then ran beneath a picnic table beside a neighbor's swimming pool, and remained there until police shot her.

Each was alone in remote country when attacked. Each was attacked just after dawn. Each was apparently jumped from above and just behind. In each case the puma dragged, partially ate, and dusted the remains, clear evidence of predatory behavior. Two people have been killed and seven maimed in 13 life-threatening attacks by pet exotic cats in the past seven years, of whom there are  at a guess based on very scanty records  perhaps 2,500.