Posted on 03/24/2007 6:34:31 PM PDT by george76
“DOW recommends using hazing techniques to lower the animals comfort level around people.”
So just how does one haze a cougar?
Do you get all the senior Alpha Beta Kapp cougars together at Animal House? Are beer and Gamma Kappa Sorority cougars involved? What about togas?
Do the cougar pledges have to run around naked with underwear on their heads?
If you lower cougars comfort levels does that mean you make them feel ashamed to be cougars? Isn’t that wrong? Won’t that require prolonged sessions with a certified cougar therapist to make them feel good about being the predators they really are?
Just send in Sigfried and Roy....!!!
They know how to handle big cities AND pumas....
right...???
I mean, at least they're not FAGS....!!!
"Do you get all the senior Alpha Beta Kapp cougars together at Animal House? Are beer and Gamma Kappa Sorority cougars involved? What about togas?"
Naaaah....
Call in some EXPERTS.
Get the boys from TAPPA KEGGA BEER....!!!
As to the correct "hazing" technique:
I've got a short-barreled DW .357 I carry while hiking that would be just the ticket.
One 158 gr swc between the forelegs would work fine.
I like your "hazing" technique...
But a 180 gr .30 is both effective, AND ethical.
And only has to be applied once per cat.
Hot stick was used in training circus animals. You might still see a reminder of it: an animal handler carrying a slender stick with the far end painted bright. And as for shooting the cats - no use then in catching, tagging and releasing.
You got itin one. Save a LOT of money, and the cat never encroaches again.
The whole excercise is kind of a workfare for otherwise unemployable wildlife biologists.
Boulder resident Bonnie Holliday said it seems a bit cruel. "I grew up in Colorado Springs where people started encroaching on mountain lion habitat," explained Holliday. "For me, I would hope that there may be a more humane solution."
Hey Bonnie why don't you take them in as pets, sheesh
Second comment, I say poke them with pointy stick, will be quicker and cheaper.
Better in urban Colorado than rural Oregon.
I wonder if they would like some wolves?
Hazing really isn't a bad idea. A better idea would be an outright hunting season. Once the cougars associate humans with the threat of death, they'll avoid us, which sounds like a good thing.
Hunting would be a good idea, but liberals are against hunting.
Boulder is full of liberals...and now mountain lions.
The wolves are already in Colorado...and more soon.
It would be nice if they stayed in the Boulder area, but...
They must be looking for Kim Bauer.
If they release hounds to chase them, the lions will climb the first tree they come to and stay there until the dogs leave.
We see signs posted by the city people that say : Have you seen my cute little dog " Muffin ?"
Muffin was lunch ( but maybe coyotes...? )
A couple of years ago my neighbor saw a lion snatch her Sheltie off the front porch while waiting at the door to be let in.
We came home from vacation 5 years ago and found a lion laying in the sun outside our patio door.
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