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    Teen gets revenge on mountain lion that killed his goat


    Dalton Streff, 14, poses with his rifle and the young mountain lion he shot near Custer one week ago.

    CUSTER | Last week, a young mountain lion wreaked havoc on Lila Streff’s life, killing one of her goats, a duck, a house cat and, judging by the amount of feathers scattered in its deadly wake, a chicken. But thanks to her 14-year-old son, the mountain lion didn’t get away with it.

    That Wednesday morning began with a gruesome discovery: a bloodied goat lie dead on the ground behind Streff’s house, 10 miles south of Custer near Pringle. The owner of Black Hills Goat Dairy, single mother of six, and grandmother to nine, soon discovered it was one of the young bucks she keeps pastured behind her home.

    For better than a decade, Streff has milked 38 others, as well as eight dairy cows, making deliveries to Custer on Tuesdays and Rapid City on Fridays. But this was the first animal she had lost to a hungry mountain lion.

    “We can see the goats right off the back porch, and we saw one lying on the ground back there,” she said on Tuesday. “We went right out and looked, and it was dead. We also saw a trail of destruction from the chicken coop with a dead cat, a dead duck and a bunch of chicken feathers.”

    Streff said she feared the mountain lion would return for more.

    “It’s unnerving because I really have a smorgasbord of animals here,” she said. “It’s like Golden Corral. If you don’t stop it, you’ll be at the mercy of the lions. I also have grandchildren out back occasionally, and I was worried.”

    Streff credits “fearless” Isabella, one of her four Great Pyrenees, with chasing off the mountain lion before it could feast on its victim. While praising her prized 80-pound dog, Streff said she was still saddened at the loss of one of her goats.

    “We’ve seen Isabella get in a fight with a lion before,” she said. “She’s fearless, and she’s not afraid of them. But this is the first animal we’ve lost in 10 years.”

    Streff reported the incident to the state Game, Fish & Parks Department and said she and her two children whom she home-schools waited around most of the day for a conservation officer to show up. And they kept watch out back lest the mountain lion return for its kill.

    After a long, sad day, Streff’s youngest child, 14-year-old Dalton, who fancies himself a hunter, told his mother he was going to go sit in the backyard and await the return of the beast that had killed their young goat. The 5-foot-10, 130-pound, brown-haired teenager, who had previously completed a hunter’s safety course, brought with him his 30.06-caliber Remington rifle he won last year in an NRA raffle.

    Lacking a proper blind in which to shelter himself from approaching critters, Dalton opted instead for a Little Tikes playhouse conveniently located in the backyard. There on a chair he sat, scanning the surrounding woodlands for the killer cat.

    His mother was skeptical.

    “He decided he was going to go sit out there until 7, when he had to do milking chores,” Streff said. “He said he’d go back out again at 5:30 in the morning if it hadn’t returned that night. But even though it was a possibility, none of us expected the cat to come back that evening.”

    A half-hour later, as the sun began to set behind the Ponderosa pines, Streff heard a single, staccato gunshot pierce the silence of their remote Black Hills home.
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    Was that in Georgetown?


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    Nope, it's not black so it is clearly not from around here.
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    That's a bobcat.

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    I saw it with a deer in its mouth the other day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Islandguy85 View Post
    Was that in Georgetown?


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    Her goat fights with mountain lions? Right...
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheVisorGuy View Post
    Her goat fights with mountain lions? Right...
    Her Great Pyrenees, Isabella, fights with the lions, not her goats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    Her Great Pyrenees, Isabella, fights with the lions, not her goats.

    Ok. Now it makes sense
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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    Her Great Pyrenees, Isabella, fights with the lions, not her goats.
    Who fights with her goats?
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    Definately a fairfield county backdrop.

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    That kid is destined for Pendleton or Parris Island...

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    Hope he's got a tag & punches out the date.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saltydog235 View Post
    Hell no, we got skeeters that'll do more carnage than that in the blink of an eye.
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    That is called real power and stamina.

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    Saw this in NRA mag yesterday. No father mentioned in the write up that I saw. Good on him. I'd be proud of him too, the kid and the mountain lion.
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