my cougar
This title screams for satire. I can’t wait to see the pics on this thread!
A: a state approved, degreed wildlife biologist, or
B: Drop the carcass on their doorstep so one can verify that um, yup, it's a cougar all right.
Sightings and sign (tracks) were denied as being cougar in North Dakota, too, until a few got shot. Now the State has a 5 cat season on them...and a lot of ranchers have shovels.
My brother lives in IL. When he told me they said the cat came from SD I told him they were crazy. He still believes the govt. in everything.
Government officials will deny the big cats existence until a cougar eats some connected pol’s lap dog.
"Listen Jones, I know that's your cat in my yard and it keeps eating my Great Danes."
Uh.....O.K.
my cougar
We've also been having problems of coyotes taking cats and small dogs. It's only a matter of time before a child is attacked.
Mark
What does any of that have to do with Demi Moore?
This is cool. Chicago is dealing with cougars, and here in Richmond, VA we’ve got black bears. A tractor trailer ran one over on I-95 just a couple days ago.
midwest outdoors and MI pings.
“Dangerous” is a relative term. Here in rural central Missouri, I have seen cougar. I have seen what are left of deer that is consistent with being killed by cougar. But cougar are only dangerous to people who cannot defend themselves in the rare event they should be attacked.
When I walk the dog at night along a private road in the woods, I carry a side arm. One of the reasons that cougars are “dangerous” is where laws prevent people from being properly armed. It seems there are too many politicians whose policy of achieving victory over danger of any kind is to be defenseless.
Wow. The conspiracy theory nuts are now claiming there’s a mountain lion population conspiracy? Wake me when sanity returns.
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Since cougars don’t exist, we can go ahead and shoot them.
The worst we have hear are the black bear up in the hills, to say nothing of coyotes. Usually when someone around here claims to have seen a cougar, it is actually a bobcat.
I saw one at the in-laws farm last year while I was out mowing a field. Walked right along a crop line, looked at me, then went into the corn.
I’m in Iowa...
Mr G wrote to the TWRS about the one we heard here, and also cited the fact that our neighbor saw one about a year ago at this time.
They did not even bother to respond.
I have lived on this property for 21 years now. I have heard coyotes, bobcats, and rattlesnakes. Even a bucksnort will startle you when it is 10 feet away! But I have never been afraid like I was when I heard that cat sound.
Bet if I notify them that I have shot one they will respond.
>> “He says state officials didn’t want to pay the costs of managing a new endangered species...”<<
“ENDANGERED SPECIES”
Considering that California, Oregon, and Washington have more than PLENTY of cougars, making the “Eastern cougar” an endangered species s a serious bad thing.
1. Making a large predator which can and does kill and eat humans, not to mention livestock, is a serious mistake.
2. It will become a major crime, to kill, hit, or even shout at, a cougar, even if it is eating your calf (or thigh!).
3. You will not be allowed to do anything anywhere near where a cougar might live. If you think this is an exaggeration, you need only consider the pseudo-endangered Spotty Owl.
See no cougar, hear no cougar, speak no cougar. Or you will regret it.
DG
Go Cats!