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Originally Posted by GGG
Cougars are routinely in fish creek park. Every year there are warnings about cougars in fish creek park. So there is definitely more than a remote chance of encountering one in woodbine or any neighbourhood that backs on to it.
I think the opposite his happening, people aren't ignoring logic, its people who want to feel safe that this will never happen to their kids need to blame the parents. This allows them to say that this would never happen to me as I wouldn't have done X. And allows them to hide the fact that the world can be scary place where random terrible stuff happens and you can do nothing to prevent it. That's why parents get blamed. It's a coping mechanism to stop that feeling of helplessness in the pit of your stomach when you read stories like this.
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Maybe it's because i've spent a decent amout of time in Florida (always went there as a child for vacation), so I could be casting too much judgment on what people should and shouldn't know about alligators in Florida.
That said, you can't compare cougars and bears to the alligators down in Florida. They are literally everywhere down there. They are closer to magpies in Calgary than they are cougars or bears. I remember my parents telling me repeatedly not to let the dog out at night because of the gators (in the 80s(. They went "missing" all the time.