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Lion trapped, relocated from north Boulder neighborhood
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| June 16, 2009
| Jean Spencer
Posted on 06/17/2009 6:25:54 AM PDT by george76
A young mountain lion was trapped and relocated by the Colorado Division of Wildlife after eating a house cat Monday ... north Boulder.
He was just too close, Churchill said. We wanted to give him a spanking and move him out of town.
Wildlife officials previously tagged the same cougar in February when the kitten was stuck in a tree, Churchill said.
He is part of the five-year Front Range Mountain Lion Study, which aims to track mountain lions between Lyons and Evergreen to better understand cougar movement trends and develop a way to mitigate aggressive behavior near human establishments, Churchill said. In 2007 and 2008, 18 cougars were captured and are now being tracked.
Still, there's no guarantee the lion wont return, Churchill said.
Some just like to keep coming back, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; bigkitties; boulder; catchandrelease; colorado; cougar; cougars; g79; kitties; kittyfood; kittyping; lion; lions; mountainlion; mountainlions; peta
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Catch and release is also known as job security for Jeniffer Churchill and her pals.
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posted on
06/17/2009 6:25:54 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Come on Freepers! Where are you this morning? 4 minutes up and no comments about this line yet?
Churchill said. We wanted to give him a spanking and move him out of town.
A story about cougars with a line about spanking and no comments yet. *sigh*
To: george76
Thank God they didn’t kill it for once!
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posted on
06/17/2009 6:33:16 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: george76
He is part of the five-year Front Range Mountain Lion Study, which aims to track mountain lions between Lyons and Evergreen to better understand cougar movement trends and develop a way to mitigate aggressive behavior near human establishmentsWhen I lived near Evergreen, my preferred method would have involved Mr. Mossberg.
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posted on
06/17/2009 6:35:16 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: SunkenCiv; proud_yank; girlangler; Daffynition; Grammy; GladesGuru; Texas Fossil; XeniaSt; ...
Catch and Release is for trout not mountain lions ht xenia st
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posted on
06/17/2009 6:36:27 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
06/17/2009 6:57:23 AM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: george76
XS>Catch and Release is for trout not mountain lions ht xenia st
LOL
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:06:57 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
” ... develop a way to mitigate aggressive behavior near human establishments, ...”
Someone needs to go back a hundred years and figure out how they managed to keep these cats away. I suggest that they arm everyone in these areas with a shotgun and snap off a couple rounds anytime they see one of them. I bet they would become rather scarce very quickly.
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:09:46 AM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: george76; Inyo-Mono
Catch and Release is for trout not mountain lions Especially this one. It's sad that Jennifer and the DOW are more interested in job security than protecting both people and domestic animals.
It's pretty clear this one was born and raised by it's mother in the midst of man and has no fear of us.
It's either a zoo for it or a bullet, it's only a matter of time and it should be sooner rather than later, more tabbies and muffins would be saved.
Thanks for the ping, I-M.
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:11:05 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
LOL, I ain’t going there.
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:12:04 AM PDT
by
Dritz_Princess
(Blonde, a woman, and I cling to my guns ... questions?)
To: Travis T. OJustice
A young mountain lion was trapped and relocated by the Colorado Division of Wildlife after eating a house cat Monday...Hey, mountain lions have to eat too!
As a side benefit, there's one less cat some irresponsible owner left running loose.
To: george76
‘to better understand cougar movement trends and develop a way to mitigate aggressive behavior ‘
In my experience they tend to congregate at piano bars and after they have captured prey drag it back to a gated community. The only way to mitigate their aggressive behavior is to act gay but sometimes even that dosen’t work.
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:14:49 AM PDT
by
Leg Olam
(TOP SECRET! Os plan, 1 invade Poland 2 annex Sudetenland...)
To: george76
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:18:52 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: Constitution Day
Like I taught my kids, everything is basically food for something else, and unwatched housecats left to run loose & free are like low hanging fruit for predators.
If you don’t want your cat to be kitty food for a big kitties, don’t let it run wild.
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:19:14 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: Daffynition
To: Travis T. OJustice
If you dont want your cat to be kitty food for a big kitties, dont let it run wild. A couple of years ago, our neighbors watched in horror as a hawk snatched their six month old Persian kitten right from their back yard in front of them.
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:21:49 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Travis T. OJustice
Precisely.
I wonder what kind of illogic you know who would use to argue that the mountain lions carry diseases and don't belong there (much like the native birds she wants the non-native house cats to wipe out).
To: george76
I CAN HAS CHEEZKITTEH?
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:24:14 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: george76
In an attempt to scare the young cougar away from residential areas, officials shot him with non-lethal bean bags and buck shots upon release, Churchill said.
That's what they meant by "spanking" but they could not have used BUCKSHOT, it would have killed him. They mean BIRDSHOT. People who are afraid of guns are clueless.
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:27:05 AM PDT
by
HighlyOpinionated
(Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann in 2012. With Liz Cheney as Secretary of State.)
To: mnehring
Sad for them, great for the hawk.
One of my favorite parts of early morning fishing is seeing a bald eagle or osprey catch a fish. It’s a little different when it’s a cat, i’m sure.
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posted on
06/17/2009 7:37:23 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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