World Without Cats (2012)
“Newspapers across the nation reported new outbreaks on their front pages.
Beth Murphy, owner of the Coos Bay Cattery tearfully locked the doors of her breeding business. Without cats, she saw no point in keeping the business operating.
When he was seven years old, Juan Valenzuela’s father had introduced him to the great outdoors on a hiking trip in the Grand Canyon. Juan’s love of nature and open spaces had begun with that trip and was a dominant facet of his life. Now twenty-two, the native Chumash-American was hiking the John Muir Trail alone, through the high country, in Sequoia National Park. Much of the trail was still buried under snowpack. Resting by an ice-covered tarn, he noticed movement about a hundred yards away.
“Madre de Dios!” he gasped. The tan shape moved again, and Juan recognized it as a mountain lion. Juan’s ancestors were Southern California mountain Chumash and had hunted pumas in the old days.
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