[Outlaw Woman]

"I couldn't get a clean shot, and if I darted it and it didn't take effect, it would run off. I didn't want to make a second problem," Loewen said.

No..but it was a clean enough shot to kill it. Makes me sick. I might get "flamed" but imo, these aholes that decide to kill before trying darts or tranqulizers are nothing but a bunch of unlearned hicks too lazy to 'track' the animal should it run off after the dart.

In our country now we must preserve the spotted-freakin'-owl, or some beetle or some stupid minnow type species. but we're suppose to believe that this mountain lion, had to be put down?? For what?

Libs and stupid people only care about the easiest thing to preserve.

[Palladin]

I’m with you. After his nap, this one-year-old would have sauntered off on his own.

Trigger-happy guy in a pickup truck!

[Inyo-Mono]

In our country now we must preserve the spotted-freakin'-owl, or some beetle or some stupid minnow type species. but we're suppose to believe that this mountain lion, had to be put down?? For what?

Because they can and will kill people.

[TigersEye]

In the old days, when people still had a little common sense about animals, they would bang pots and pans together, set off a firecracker or fire a shot into the air (or ground) to scare off a bear, mountain lion etc. That taught the animal to stay far away from humans.

Now people put out feeders, take pictures and try to put their grandchildren on the back of the animal for a souvenir photo.

[terycarl]

No..but it was a clean enough shot to kill it. Makes me sick. I might get "flamed" but imo, these aholes that decide to kill before trying darts or tranqulizers are nothing but a bunch of unlearned hicks too lazy to 'track' the animal should it run off after the dart. In our country now we must preserve the spotted-freakin'-owl, or some beetle or some stupid minnow type species. but we're suppose to believe that this mountain lion, had to be put down?? For what?

oh, please....it was a mountain lion on someones porch, had they tranquilized it and took it into the wild, how soon do you suppose it would have come back...wild animals which have no fear of humans are VERY dangerous....killing it was the right thing to do! Libs and stupid people only care about the easiest thing to preserve

[rabidralph]

You’ll get no argument from me. The cat was minding its own business.

[Daffynition]

Charlene was in the house. Can you imagine the potential danger to getting killed by a stray HP shot from the officer’s gun
I *love* it, he shot from the *safety* of his vehicle. Much bigger chance of that happening than getting killed by the lion. Morons. Twice over.

[I Buried My Guns]

Ma'am, I respectfully disagree. I say kill them before you put a child at risk. I say children have more value than mountain lions, although I do have a love and respect for wild animals.

I have had exactly one closeup encounter with a mountain lion, while riding my mountain bike in a semi-rural area.

I was close enough to see his enormous, sinewy, lithe muscles under his coat, and there was no doubt in my mind he could have easily killed me that day. He was about 50 feet away, hanging out in an area where bunny rabbits were known to congregate in the afternoon to munch on grass, just off the trail I was riding (illegally!).

He looked like a sub adult, but his tail was thicker than my arm, and his shoulder muscles looked like coils of cable. He was immense!

This occured on Sheep Camp Trail, just west of Belmont, CA. The next week I moved to Texas.

[Maverick68]

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[B Knotts]

What would you propose to do with a cougar that has so little fear of humans it sleeps on someone’s porch?

Obviously, you don’t live in cougar country.

Cougars/mountain lions can’t be reasoned with.