[george76]

Have you seen these :

HAMILTON, Mont. — In the past couple weeks we’ve reported a couple stories of attacks by wolves on domestic animals in the Bitterroot...

Now, a Hamilton man shot a mountain lion in his backyard. The cougar had killed a sheep and came back to feast on a goose.

http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/28102162/detail.html

A second item about a mountain lion that was curled up on the porch of a Helena home.

[raygun]

Isn’t it amazing how the nature photogs always have somebody with a caribine in hand?

One thing I always take away from the PBS nature shows: top level predators are sorely needed everywhere.

So what’s the answer? Recompense the farmer for lost sheep? How to deal w/bears? Then there’s the little guy carnivore, i.e., coyote

Is coyote a nuisance? What about the cougar? Racoon?

[Flycatcher]

No, I didn't see that story. But after reading it, I like this quote from it:

Mahar, whose a deputy county attorney, is a hunter and saw the marks of a big cat. "I was relieved to see that this was looking like a lion instead of a pack of wolves," he said.

I agree with him. I would much rather deal with a lion than a pack of wolves.

Fortunately, there are no wolves in my neck of the woods.

Yet!