[Dominnae]

Well, you know he can’t be dangerous, because even the large predators in Boulder are vegans. His only social slight is that he wears fur.

Ok, sorry, but seriously —

If this animal is “known”.. they have a problem on their hands. Also - catch and release trapping, while a nice warm & fuzzy notion, doesn’t work with large predators who are desensitized to humans.

And, releasing it in a local open space is silly, these animals have HUGE roaming territories.

He will keep coming back ‘til something bad happens.

The bunny-huggers whine that we’re diminishing the wildlife’s environment and cutting off their natural food sources - BUT..

The truth is that the human environment is a much more appealing one than their natural one. Easy pickings via garbage, pets, and other attractions. So, all things being relative, our environment has become theirs by preference. Why go hunt when you can go to the corner convenience store?

Look at the huge increase in coyote attacks on pets and humans from coast to coast. Fifteen years ago I gave press interviews telling people not to panic, that coyotes were an opportunistic nuisance at best, and to keep their garbage cans in garage. Now it’s a different, more damgerous game. They are also notoriously hard to live-trap.

Wild animals adapt, and dangerously confident ones should be euthanized before a tragedy, not as a result of one.

[CDHart]

We are in central MO and had a bobcat in our yard the other day. They say the bears are coming back, too. We have a lot of deer and turkey, so I guess they will bring the predators. You don't go for a walk without a gun.

Carolyn

[GladesGuru]

“And, releasing it in a local open space is silly, these animals have HUGE roaming territories.”

It is far worse than merely silly. Those enviro-whackos were careful to release that cat in an “Open Space Park”.

Unfortunately, the nice “Open Space Rangers” posted those parks with a rule board on which is a rule “Open carry is prohibited.”

Colorado is an open carry state, so the result of the banning of open carry is that the Open Spece park visitors are warned on the back of the same visitor information board to “Fight back if attacked, with your bare hands, if necessary.”

The rule first stripd the visitor of their Unalienable Right to defense of their life and then has the sheer arrogance to ask a human to fight a puma with their bare hands.

PS The “Open Space Ranger” IS armed.

PPS Who annointed the AgencyPerson and made them the UberMenschen, ala the Third Reich’s concept of the Ubermenschen?