Billy, supposedly, the mountain men preferred mountain lion over all other meats.
Glad you enjoyed the Coon meat. I might try it sometime. They are a pain in the arse down here in Fla. They are like armadillos, here just mobile speed bumps, and all over the place. Lot of rabies down here though. Don't know as I would bother with a fresh road kill. You can get rabies by breathing in the virus also. There were Spelunkers, (cave explorers ) who came down with Rabies, and they had not been bitten, and they realized they had been in area loaded with bats, which are known to carry Rabies now and then. They did air quality samples, and found the Virus I guess. At any rate, if you suspect that any animal is infected with anything, don't touch it. I read in USA today, where a 37 year old Park Ranger, was checking on a Mountain Lion, that he had caught, and collared. It's Collar device sent a mortality signal, since it hadn't moved in over 24 hrs. When he found it, it had some blood coming from it's nose. So he decided to take it home and perform an autopsy, to see why it died. She had kittens, but he couldn't find them, or any sign of them. He thought maybe a big male had killed it, but the body was intact, with no battle marks. They think that when opened the cat up, he inhaled some of the gases. Well he died a few days later of Pneumonic Plague. All who had come in contact with him were given antibotics. It is really nasty stuff. Some people even die when given antibotics. It is what killed the masses in medival times. It's not just Brucelloses, or Chronic Wasting disease you have to watch out for.
WAyne
