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Killing pumas doesn't lessen attacks
Reuters ^
| 08/08/06
Posted on 08/08/2006 1:47:20 PM PDT by presidio9
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:47:21 PM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Reuters - news you can "trust"
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:48:42 PM PDT
by
steveo
(ADVERTISEMENT)
To: presidio9
Sport hunting of mountain lions in the American West does not reduce the number of attacks by the animals..." Guess that means we aren't shooting enough of them.
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:50:05 PM PDT
by
ECM
(Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
To: presidio9
He forgot to mention that capital punishment isn't a deterrent to murder either. I was surprised at the oversight.
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:51:24 PM PDT
by
vetsvette
(Bring Him Back)
To: presidio9
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:51:28 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(What is our exit strategy in the war on poverty?)
To: steveo
I don't know why anybody pays any attention to Reuters any more. The article above has to be the stupidest thing I've read in years.
Live Puma: able to kill a person.
Dead Puma: unable to kill a person.
California experienced a considerable increase in human attacky by pumas AFTER the state outlawed the hunting of pumas.
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:53:21 PM PDT
by
Renfield
To: steveo
They also said that killing Hezbollah terrorist will increase the likelihood of future attacks on Israel.
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:54:15 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: presidio9
The new study by Christopher Papouchis compared the number of attacks in California with states allowing hunting, and said it took into account the human population and size of the mountain lion habitat. Once you start "adjusting" for things, you can make the results go any way you want.
To: SlowBoat407
I spent a month at Washington State for a training session a few years back. Yep, some damn fine cougars there.
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:54:41 PM PDT
by
Renfield
To: GladesGuru
So when you kill some cougars, the others work longer hours to take up the slack?
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:55:52 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Don't mix alcopops and ufo's)
To: presidio9
I HAVE HAD A REVELATION!!! The only real way to decrease the number of mountain lion attacks here in Montana is to live-trap our surplus lions and send them to California, which, judging by the lower percentage of attacks, needs more! And if this works for mountain lions, maybe we should start exporting our excess grizzlies, which are extinct in California. Just think, not only would California have grizzlies again, the homeless problem would disappear!
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posted on
08/08/2006 1:56:24 PM PDT
by
kcmt01
To: kcmt01
I think what you have stated is cause for the start of a movement. Ship excess wildlife to California! The grizzly is on the state flag. They SHOULD have grizzlies.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:00:27 PM PDT
by
scory
To: presidio9
" ...it does not reduce attacks on people or livestock, as far as we can tell from any of the evidence," said Lynn Sadler, who happened to be wearing a beautiful set of patent-leather blinders....
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:00:50 PM PDT
by
kcmt01
To: Renfield; SlowBoat407
I have no ideas what you guys are talking about. It's known that by definition, a "cougar" is a middle-aged woman on the prowl.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:05:22 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
To: scory
We don't want to ship ALL of our excess wildlife, just the inedible ones.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:05:23 PM PDT
by
kcmt01
To: steveo
There are pumas in the crevices.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:12:59 PM PDT
by
Dracian
To: presidio9
The gist of this article seems to be, Hunting pumas in other states does not effect pumas in California.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:17:27 PM PDT
by
rock58seg
(A minority of Republican RINO's are making a majority of Republicans look like fools.)
To: Renfield
"Sport hunting is nothing more than the random shooting of mountain lions for fun, it does not reduce attacks on people or livestock, as far as we can tell from any of the evidence," said Lynn Sadler, president of the Sacramento, California-based Mountain Lion Foundation Boy, that's an unbiased group. Hunting ANY predator makes it more wary of humans.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:19:26 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Why does Israel take border security seriously but we do not, when Islamists wish us both harm?)
To: presidio9
Our only hope is to negotiate a cease-bite.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:21:03 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The worst thing about censorship is XXXXXXXXXXXXX)
To: presidio9
Cougar, mountain lion, puma, woman on the prowl, pretty much all the same thing.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:21:34 PM PDT
by
kcmt01
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