“As the line between natural, wildlife areas continues to blur with residential housing areas, pet owners will need to become more vigilant. Cats and small dogs left unattended in yards are easy prey to a hungry coyote, mountain lion, or even raccoon.”
Standard liberal boilerplate that has no basis in fact. The line between natural areas and housing areas has always been blurred. There were a lot more wild areas in the past. What has changed is that people no longer carry guns and shoot predators on sight as a menace. Lions and bears and coyotes learn that people are not dangerous and are potential food sources. We are not defending our position at the top of the food chain as vigorously as we used to. That is the difference.
Why was the mountain lion malnourished? Are the wolves eating up all its prey?
“There were a lot more wild areas in the past.”
I agree with most of your post but not so sure about this. The population has consolidated more and more into major centers. Away from those major cities the population density has gone down in many areas.
"We"? You got a mouse in your pocket?....:^D
It goes after my dogs, it dies and I don't care how "sacred" it is to somebody.
Shoot, shovel, shut up.
The end.
[and I hope one of those bleeding heart idjits tests it for rabies]
They claim they are not east of the Mississippi, they are wrong.
I saw one in the open in West Virginia.
I totally agree. ‘
I said on FR about a year or so ago that our town absolutely forbids the discharge of any fire arm. The result is that we now have coyotes. And the result of that is that we can’t let our cats out. Since we can’t let our cats out, we have rats. And since we have rats, every resident was forced to get a large tote in which to put the garbage. And no feeding birds.