Federal researchers declare eastern cougar extinct

Yahoo! News ^ | March 2, 2011 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM

[I see my hands]

I was gonna say you had more crust than a bakery. With my luck you probably have a pie in the oven. I'd better quit before I run out of idioms.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"Nice headlights on that cougar."

Too bad they're on permanent low beam.

[meatloaf]

That’s just plain out and out nasty.

[Moonman62]

Apparently that's the Florida subspecies.

There is no Florida subspecies. They are all North American cougars.

[Strk321]

They’re liars and everyone knows it. Plenty of people have seen mountain lions in Pennsylvania and other states. But the authorities deny it because they don’t want to spend money on protecting an endangered species and because they don’t want to get farmers panicked.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Us Californians have our own special way of dealing with the big cats which are not uncommon in these parts, I'm told. Every year or two, somebody gets eaten by one. The much smaller bobcats find small dogs to a fine tasty snack, too.

[Ron C.]

“There aren’t cougars in Tennessee.”

I know there are! Been there done that. There are cougar in Kentucky, Missouri, and they are seen in the flat-lands of Kansas and Western Colorado. They've killed domestic cattle in all of the states mentioned here.

[org.whodat]

Strange the last set of tracks I saw was about 1988.

[org.whodat]

You know I sold her and her engineer husband a house once.

[Ab Alius Domitor]

Bullshit, I have two that visit my property regularly. I am in NC.When they scream at night it will make the hairs stand up on your neck!!!!!!!

[muawiyah]

Large predators used to wander about Europe and Asia Minor with abandon. We know this because we find their remains.

Then people showed up who could kill them at will.

We call them Neanderthals ~ smart, stocky, strong ~ knew how to use fire and make stone points.

These pre-agriculture people deprived the large predators of game and reduced their numbers handily.

Later on Cro-Magnon people, like us, came in with yet more advanced technology and began a serious program of eradication.

Now while there were undoubtedly folks who thought of the prestige of killing large predators, there were many more who thought of how many more deer there'd be if they could get rid of the large predators.

Agricultural people had even less use for the large predators.

[TYVets]

Trail cameras are usually placed along game trails, food plots and other places where wild animals like deer, turkey, bear and other wild animals pass by.

http://www.cuddeback.com/indexb.html

There are numerous brands and models sold by Cabela's, Bass Pro, Gander Mountain, Walmart and others.

[Erasmus]

The administrators of the EPA had an excellent scam going.

They take a neighborhood that has some fairly common animal in it. This "Fibong," say, exists in two genetically identical populations on either side of the Fuqawi river.

Well, they classify the two groups as "West Fuqawi Fibongs" and "East Fuqawi Fibongs." That way, the biologists and other bureaucrats can double their workloads with regard to this particular species.

Then, developers or farmers or whatever begin to encroach on the east side of the river. All of a sudden, now the "East Fuqawi Fibong" becomes an endangered species, allowing the pecksniffs to come down hard on the citizens and the businesses on the east side of the river.

Meanwhile, the "West River Fibong" is doing just fine.

[Erasmus]

Oops—fixing the terminology—

Meanwhile, the “West Fuqawi Fibong” is doing just fine.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Are these privately owned? Or state owned?

[freekitty]

They will pop back up.

[Erasmus]

I think Kurt Gödel would call that a “meta-joke.”

[HP8753]

Trail Cams are put out by hunters and other wildlife watchers.

Four legged animals aren't the only ones that shows up on Trail cams

[HP8753]

Illegal Aliens on South Texas Trail cam

[goat granny]

What next? How about bears and wolves, I sure wouldn’t want them in my backyard.