Posted on 12/19/2014 5:41:58 AM PST by Scoutmaster
A Fish and Wildlife official near Paris, Kentucky responded to the call about a young male mountain lion in a tree and though it best to 'dispatch it.'
Once native to the state, cougars have not been spotted there since before the Civil War.
An agency spokesman said, 'it seemed to be in very healthy condition' and that shooting it was the proper course of action
An examination of a mountain lion killed by a Kentucky Fish and Wildlife official has found that it was a 125-pound male that appeared to be young and healthy.
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People who anti-cougar simply don’t know what they are talking about. Do research. Deer ticks are a 100x more likely to kill you. Deer through the windshield are 1,000x more likely to kill you. Kids will die because of your irrational fear of cats.
Not if you Shoot, Shovel and Shut up.
Aka: SSS
Right, the guy who camps and hikes alone, and prefers night hiking in the mountains alone and winter camping, is afraid of the woods, you sound like a real bright guy.
You told me you would be afraid... I believed you. Sue me.
If you are suggesting we raise the cougar population to the point that they keep deer levels down then we would be in for a LOT more cat attacks. Better to just raise the bag limit on deer.
Another example of how bright you are.
“”As someone who likes to camp alone and hike alone at night, I would just as soon not have any Mountain Lions stalking me or lying in wait.””
It is an activity that I do, in spite of the mountain lion attacks in my area. but I would prefer that you lefties not keep trying to import cougars.
What experiences do you prefer and perform in cougar country?
Wow. Lefties are pro-cougar.. Or something. I camp in the West... at night... Deeply ensconced in cougar country. Worry about bears, never cougars. DO RESEARCH
Yes, lefties are pro Cougar and for increasing the number of all predators, you didn’t know that?
Do your research.
A fellow bus passenger saw that one himself in High Knob. That is of course very close to the Smithsonian.
Since you aren’t paying me, I am done.
Do some research, and quit supporting the left.
Yeah, thats it, isn’t it?
Nature can be a see-saw or pendulum. Raise the number of cougars in an area where they really reduce the deer population (lowering deer-caused human injury and death) and at some point you will have more cougars than the deer population will support.
And once those cougars start going hungry, they’ll become a lot less picky about where their food comes from.
Wild predators may be good at population control, but they aren’t really good at game management.
Less-than 7 MPG, eh?
Must have been the Cleveland 396, 4-bubble?
I'm 5'10-1/2", and that was obviously a 6'0" joke.
That, and I previously overreacted for being called out over using Southern, sorta-blue collar, redneck-type stereotypes. I've lived all over the country, but given my family history and my wife's family history, and the people I feel most comfortable around, I reacted to it like a black guy being told he couldn't use the 'n' word.
I apologize, don-o.
I'd have give your comment a +1 if I'd exercised any common sense the first time around, and I'd have alerted Laz.
“Say, I have three rounds left. You got any dogs around here?”
Why did you have to spoil a very funny post?
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Then again, I don't raise livestock, my dogs and cats haven't been disappearing from the back yard of deeply residential areas, and I'm not worried about small children or jogging paths. 2002 was the year with the second-highest number of bear attacks on Philmont hikers, at least at the time. May have been as a result of all of the fires in the north country, or the Scouts who left candy bar wrappers at the foot of their sleeping bags, or the ones who left asthma inhalers in their boots at night without covering them with stinky socks, or the orange-tagged bears who had been spoiled by poorly hung bear bags and had already been tranquilized and flown out of New Mexico, but found their way back.
The bloody paw print on the rock scared the bumpkins out of me, however, and the tawny flashes on either side of the road, and the occasional flashlighted eye flashes from RM's extra powerful torch kept me concentrated on keeping the crew together, hiking fast, and singing.
The two youth crew leaders we told, who kept the crew together, noisy and moving, without telling any of them for a day or two, were champs.
When I used to do wood cutting work in the mountains, camping by myself, and with a wood truck coming up every 2 weeks to load my wood and take me to town for a shower and supplies, I couldn’t resist the impulse to search for the bears unarmed through the woods for recreation, trying to track them , something that probably wasn’t the right thing to do.
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