Okay, this is EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Glenn Reynolds has been adding links to his post about human/wild animal contact. One of them is this horrifying article in the Denver Post about a mountain lion that is stalking a family in Evergreen, Col.

The lion has perched outside their 7-year-old son’s bedroom window, looking in at the boy. It has jumped onto the top of their van. It walks around on their roof. They’ve seen it hanging out in trees on the edge of their lawn. It’s killed their cat right in front of them.

The mountain lion with a black snout had her pet in its jaws in an instant. Carrie picked up firewood and threw it at the lion.

“I whacked him dead center in the head,” she said.

The animal disappeared with Indigo in its mouth.

Since then, the lion has returned “nearly every night.”

A week after the first encounter, Carrie and Shaffer were smoking outside when they heard the lion screech.

Carrie made it inside the front door first. The lion crossed a 60-foot dirt road in a few seconds. Carrie Warner slammed the door just as her husband got through. The lion’s head was caught in the door. She slammed the door on its head again and it backed out.

This is horrifying.

But look at the last paragraph in the article:

The Warners don’t want the animal killed. Shaffer Warner said he wishes the animal to be tranquilized and relocated.

They don’t want it killed.

This boggles my mind. It’s a dangerous animal. It’s stalking human beings. It’s lost its fear of people.

A little boy — someone’s son — is in danger. And dad puts Love of Nature first.

An abstraction trumps the fundamental instinct to protect one’s child.

The man literally cannot see the mountain lion. He sees a cartoon character, a Misunderstood Misfit, a poor widdle puddy tat.

It boggles my mind.

(My previous post on problem wildlife and how we’re Bambi-izing nature — was linked by Instapundit — is here.)