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I love nature as much as the next guy, and don't mind if we "protect" some species and land. However, one of my sayings is "I'm glad my ancestors made it possible for my kids to wait at the bus stop in the morning and not have to worry about a saber tooth using them for a breakfast snack". Unbelievably, these wack jobs seem to be intent upon reversing this history.

I was watching a show a couple of weeks ago (pardon my memory, but I don't recall the name or channel; perhaps National Geographic Channel?), that was discussing the problem of big cats in 2 cities:one in India, and in LA. The LA part of the show concentrated upon the mountain lion attack upon a cyclist riding her trail bike in a wooded area. A couple of people came along just as the cat was dragging her away by her head. Unbelievably, the "helpful" solution these passersby came up with was to grab the woman's feet and try to pull her away from a full grown male cougar. Yeah, that didn't work too good. Finally it occurred to the guy, "Attack the cat!", which did work. For some reason, I started to suspect that the guy was a liberal.

For the Indian part of the show, these leopards were getting so bold, they would enter your house at night and drag away even a teen age boy for din din. Worrying about feral humans is bad enough. Do we really need to add big cats to our daily probs as well?

Ps- I let most snakes live. However, copperheads and rattlers are dead meat around me!

Non-poisonous snakes are great. Spare 'em, protect 'em, what ever. They eat things I want eaten.

On cats - do you ever wonder what your pet kitty is thinking? I swear I've heard my cat think "If I were bigger, I'd EAT you!"

"Ps- I let most snakes live. However, copperheads and rattlers are dead meat around me!"

Me too. Rattlers are really shy but Copperheads are very testy. The area around my house in Tennessee was so infested with them I started carrying a sawed-off 12 Ga. when I went to the barn. I really hate Copperheads.