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Topic: Top Gun Maverick
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Leonard
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posted July 03, 2022 08:32 AM
I went to the movies yesterday with Ginger from Yucaipa. I thought the movie was okay. The theater was only half full.
Anyway, she told me that she saw a lion the other day and it was definitely interested in her neighbor's little dog. She lives in Yucaipa, what I might call sprawling, winding roads, golf courses, housing developments all over the place and lots of hills, and nature trails. In other words, excellent lion country. If I was a female, I would be very careful walking around early and late in the day.
Upland is what's called, "built out" meaning that there is no open land to build anything, and surrounded by rock quarries on both sides, east and west and south by I-10 and north by mountains, which are as rugged as any you will every see. So, we get animals, mostly coyotes, from three sides but this town is commercial, maybe 10-15% and the rest is single family homes, but everything is confined, block walls in every back yard, and you do not see dogs wandering, but cats, yes. So what attracts the coyotes? Other than cats, I don't know? scattered city parks and there are squirrels and cottontails.
Quite a few years ago, there was a lion tranquilized under a loading dock at a business that was within a couple hundred yards of the quarry. It made the news. And, in fact, I have seen mule deer in that quarry which has a rainwater settlement pond that must be the attraction or they were lost because there's nowhere to go but turn around and head back up to the mountains. Also, coons and coyotes use the storm drains, I have seen them go in and they all go north and south from the mountains as flood control canals. And it's pretty much seasonal, right about now when the pups are out with parents, some get lost.
I have a 6 foot block wall completely surrounding my yard but I have seen coyotes in my back yard, and I have seen a coyote jump my wall. I have seen it, and it's amazing to see it. So far Tillie has not tried to jump the wall but my Red Bone used to hop up on the wall and travel down the block, hopping into any back yard she wanted to, get in their trash and come back again walking the top, which is 6 inches wide. She used to flush cats that thought they were impervious to attack, walking the wall.
I have had many Opossums and a few skunks, one skunk was in my garage and Red cornered it. Before I sorted it out the smell was overpowering, Red was very proud of herself, made us sick, but the kids slept through it.
That's all I have about Maverick, I give it a 8, maybe an 8.5?
Good hunting. El Bee
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