The Puma is coming back my friends and will soon be in every state of the union roaming grounds it has for generations past in short time. The explosive growth of the mountain Lion in the Boulder, Colorado area in the late eighties and early nineties is the setting of David Baron's classic nature book called "The Beast In The Garden' in which the book reds like a crime novel as much as a nature book discussing how people had to adapt seeing these beasts er ahh in the yards and gardens. The adaptations of the environmentally aware Boulder officials is detailed as are numerous encounters between cougar and man as the big cats were getting more use and less fear of the primates building these huge mc mansions into their territories
. Native Americans long had a mystical feeling for these powerful predators and did their best to avoid and angry these creatures who were always near by and fellow hunters of the plains. Author David Baron goes through many encounters before the fatal last jog of high school student Scott Lancaster who was killed and munched upon on a trail outside his high school during fifth hour on January 14th 1991 within two hundred years of where most of the school was still in process. 
The events leading up to this shocking death and numerous encounters between cat and man is detailed and baron does a good job describing the number of field managements warnings about the increased cougar presence and how little awareness of danger were known by the public. This book also details the amazing route and plundering of pet stock by the infamous Coal Creek Canyon puma that made mince meat out of livestock and dogs from November of 1989 to February 4 1990 before Jay Bruce shot the sucker after his team and dogs tracked the slickest up a tree. Clearly one can sense that David Baron feared being eaten alive by a pumped up Puma and his book goes through the aftermath and anger and fear following the students brutal death and other children in the West.
The Lion though is just doing what the physical world and Physics dictates it to smash apart other matter and beings for survival and this is something baron really implies clearly and that man and cat can get along and co-exist adapting to one another s behavior and avoiding physical confrontation dictated by physics. There are plenty of mules and deer's for these cats to feast upon and people shouldn't leave young kids unattended outside anymore when choosing to live in the remote wilderness and large tract homes that living in urban areas prove to be too costly for people. the Cougar is crazy and very territorial and considers all things fair game if wandering foolishly near by a hungry and playful cat which like a housecat is always observing its surroundings and looking for mischief.
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