...and pertaining to this article, i understand something had to be done, but stringing it up like that and taking that pic....just wrong.
That picture is called EVIDENCE for the DNR and for the Feds.
Not only do farmers and ranchers have to protect their livestock, they also have to protect themselves from city-dwelling, pasty, soft-handed government officials who think like you do.
You can't have even read the article. If you're feeling sorry for the poor widdle animals -- how about nannies and kids slaughtered in the barn, blood everywhere, discovered dead and dying by their young owner, orphaned kids crying for their mothers -- a border collie puppy snatched right off the front porch --
These are dangerous predators and they would stalk and eat YOU in a heartbeat. Get out there and ride fence with the ranchers, or hush about stuff you don't understand in the least.
Have you ever been hunting? Have you ever been hunted? Let me tell you sweetie, if I went up against a big cat and came out alive I'd be proud too. I'd hang the thing on my wall to but for the fact that morons like you have made it illegal.
Mountain lions are not scarce; hell, they're overpopulated thanks to people like you. The pressure of territorial competition is so intense in these mountains that young males come down into the city as far as the food court at the Capitola Mall looking for food. Try growing up and facing reality: wildlife, as a whole, are better off if they are managed. If some have to die to make that happen, so be it. That's the job GOD gave us in Genesis 1:28.
That’s the fastest way to document it. Hang it off a calf scale, next to a man the size of whom you know.
You’re so obviously a city girl, it’s pretty funny to those of us who have to deal with these things. You oughta see how we drop the guts out of deer or elk, then jerk the hide off them.
Fawn, hunters have been proudly displaying their kills since we began the long walk from Olduvai Gorge to America.
That picture is to men what showing a baby by the mother is to women.
I suggest considering acceptance of human nature.