Mule Kills Mountain Lion

[ironsides]

Mule Kills Mountain Lion – Photos


You may or may not have seen this before, but I received these photos in an email regarding a couple of people hunting in Montana when one of their mules actually killed a mountain lion. Now mules are commonly used to protect herds of goats and flocks of sheep, but no one really expected this!
Here is how the story goes:
Mule Kills Mountain Lion – Photos | Wildlife Management & Habitat Management News

 

[Colpy]

Mule Kills Mountain Lion – Photos


You may or may not have seen this before, but I received these photos in an email regarding a couple of people hunting in Montana when one of their mules actually killed a mountain lion. Now mules are commonly used to protect herds of goats and flocks of sheep, but no one really expected this!
Here is how the story goes:
Mule Kills Mountain Lion – Photos | Wildlife Management & Habitat Management News

Yeah.....

I was amazed to learn that farmers put mules in the pasture with their cattle to prevent coyotes getting the calves.......

These are eastern coyotes.....much closer to wolves than they are to their western cousins.....much bigger, and they hunt in packs.

Seems mules take a very dim view of predators..........

 

[ironsides]

Amazed me also, being sort of a city boy, I never thought of them as an animal to protect something.