Posted on 02/12/2019 8:56:39 AM PST by jazusamo
A California family's decision to shoot and kill a hungry mountain lion during the animal's attempt to feast on its third sheep over three consecutive nights is being fiercely debated by locals, as some argue killing the big cat wasn't necessary.
Alejandra Calderon, of Napa, estimated the mountain lion was only about 20 feet from their home when her husband — a hunter — delivered the fatal blow on Saturday. The young mountain lion was being tracked by Audubon Canyon Ranch, a non-profit conservation and research group based in Stinson Beach, at the time.
“As a parent, I hope that they understand how scared we were in the moment,” Calderon told The Press Democrat. “It was a scary experience.”
But Audubon Canyon Ranch, which just started following the mountain lion with a special collar last week, has encouraged landowners to call their Living with Lions research team to capture and remove any wild animals that attack livestock.
"In another win for wildlife, last night a very caring and involved landowner chose to call our Living with Lions team to capture and collar a mountain lion who killed her goat," the organization wrote, in part, on Facebook last week. "This landowner joins two others in the past month who did the right thing when faced with a pet livestock loss: they recognized that killing the lion via a depredation permit would do no good and that by opting to GPS-track these lions, our entire North Bay community will be able to learn so much more about coexisting with wildlife."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Please avoid engaging in a life of crime. You haven’t the talent for it.
= = =
Oops, I post replies on FR. Already a goner.
No argument with the talent comment.
Coyotes are even worse . . . which is why they should be shot on sight and bounty paid for each mangy hide turned in . . .
A lion will lie down with a lamb. You should not ask, however, how often they have to replace the lamb...
On Broadway!
The environmentally ill. Bless their derangement
I used to trap until the anti-fur PETA people messed it up. Trapping was well managed and helped control the population with no threat to the environment. Now they are out of hand and need to be shot. It was dumb, same final end result anyways.
FWIW, coyotes were unknown in rural Pennsylvania just a decade or so ago. Now, they are just starting to be a real nuisance! I’ll bet some damn PETA type introduced them.
Back during the 19th century, 10 in 1 medicine shows would frequently have a lion and lamb in the same cage as a demonstration of the "biblical" verse. (No such verse, by the way.)
As I said, don't ask about the lamb's future.
I agree. Predators usually need a large territory for the number of prey animals to sustain it. I am guessing that there are too many lions within a small area forcing the cats to go after livestock. Livestock losses mean $$ losses. So the family was quite right to kill the lion. It probably would have been killed by another lion at some point.
Put it in a cage and let it loose in the Sacramento General Assembly building or governor’s offices.
Or just shoot, shovel, and shutup.
That is a lot of people following the lion. Did they take turns carrying the collar?
Replace ‘mountain lion’ with ‘alligator’ and see if you can generate the same ‘caring’ by the Left nuts.
Isaiah 11:6”5Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist. 6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them. 7The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.…”
There is a verse that does say it... but it is more of a animal “group” thing as above! A wolf lies with a lamb, a leopard lies down with a goat and a young lion hangs out with a young cow and they are all hanging out together as the cute little human child cub pretends to be their boss. The verse speaks of the spiritual contentment that God will bring to the Earth during Messiah’s rule out of Jerusalem in the millennium!
Here’s some history on yours, but you can bet that sometime in the past trapping and hunting them was stopped or greatly reduced for awhile for political reasons. It happens a lot with all wildlife.
https://www.pgc.pa.gov/Education/WildlifeNotesIndex/pages/ecoyote.aspx
Check this out... Legal anytime with a license. :)
“COYOTES: No closed season. No limit. Outside of any big game season (deer, bear, elk and turkey), coyotes may be taken with a hunting license or a furtaker license, and without wearing orange. During any big game season, coyotes may be taken while lawfully hunting big game or with a furtaker license.”
https://www.pgc.pa.gov/HuntTrap/Law/Pages/SeasonsandBagLimits.aspx#.VsqRNflViko
I don’t get it. They won’t eat meat, but they protect to the death the right of holy animals to do it.
It’s an inversion of the things some of us still believe. Instead of God being superior to Man being superior to animals, it’s the other way around.
What, I gotta fix every problem? Youse cut off the collar, den you throw it on some passing freight train. Bam!! problemo, gone-o.
Weirdest thing ever, tracking says mountain lion decided to move to Texas by way of Flagstaff Arizona.
You know what? I know you’re gonna hate this. But sometimes...you and me ain’t really so different! I posted after you, then I found yours.
“I think they may wonder about the point at which the cat started moving at 35mph eventually reaching 65 down the highway.
Please avoid engaging in a life of crime. You haven’t the talent for it.”
Neither do you. You don’t know to resist having an answer for everything. Besides, the clear answer is someone must have poached it and drove away, threw it in a circus car with dumbo the elephant, etc.
Repeat after me... shrug and say ...nothing.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.