Please.
Cougars are a threat to children, livestock, and pet animals.
If you feel that way, join the Sierra Club.
OK where are the cougar jokes ?
It took a lot of hard work and not a little danger to get rid of these horrible predators over several hundred years. Job well done! Stay vigilant.
This can’t be true. I thought there were still florida panthers left.
The sub species known as Rinos?
Oh no we love cougars!
what’s next....? Americans
The cats are small ~ like domestic cats.
12,500 years ago humans already knew they didn't live well with large cats around and had DISPOSED of all the lions, tigers, dontinae (Felidae), Barbourofelidae (Feliformia), and Nimravidae (Feliformia) anywhere near them!
Still, one of the reasons for disposing of your dead on platforms where the buzzards consume their flesh is to avoid FEEDING LARGE CATS, LARGE BEARS, LARGE WOLVES, or any of those other nasty animals we just don't want to have around.
Like we say today "Don't Feed The Troll", back then they said "Don't Feed The Cats".
It is good that the Eastern Cougar is gone. If God wants there to be another large predator, He'll make one for us. Until then, let them be gone!
Are these people trying to say that having big predator cats prowling the streets and suburbs of say, Philadelphia, would be a ~good~ thing?
In Minnesota, wildlife “researchers” had declared the cougar to be extinct for decades if not a century of more. Despite reports of local folks up north and hunters, the DNR stuck to their story and sneered at the reports as nothing more than yokels telling boogerman stories in roadhouse bars.
Until somebody creamed one on a highway . . .
Then, of course, “science” was on the job detirmining what was going on. Meanwhile, the cats are all over - including at least one shooting of a aggressive cougar in suburan Bloomington still within the metropolitan area river system.
Wolves, too, are an example of ESA genuius run amok. The time has arrived for wolf bounties to be reintroduced and scores of former pet owners, livestock owners and dead and eaten people would agree. Deeper research into Cooper’s hawks, Spotted owls and many other ESA scams would benefit the reader as well.
This flunks the smell test big time for me, given the loose and promiscuous way the gubmint assholes use the term "extinct:" see the Endangered Species Act where it is formally defined.
"Extinct" does not mean what you think it means.
Those researchers haven’t met Lisa C., 46 of Milford, MA.
That got them the survival of the fittest 2nd place award.
Were you to see such a creature in the wild you might think that it is beautiful & unique, buts that's the second to the last thing that you would have thought in life.
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Either Bush or Global Warming at fault. Still doing research to come up with the answer.
We need to place some eastern cougars in Central Park, along with bears and wolves, so libs can experience them in person.
I thought I saw a cougar near Baxley, GA several years ago. This was near the Altamaha River.
I had taken a hunter safety instructors course which included a presentation from a wildlife biologist. I talked to him later and he said there were no cougars in Mississippi. He also said they had around 50 alleged sightings every year.
When I phoned the local Georgia wildlife biologist, I told him I knew there were not supposed to be any left in that area and I was sure I was mistaken but I still wanted to report it.
He asked a bunch of questions and after we were through he said he would go out and check the place where I saw it. He said he too doubted it was a cougar but he said it was possible. My description of what it was doing and what it looked like were spot on according to him. He also said the place where I saw it was one of the few areas he could believe one lived if it had moved up from Florida.
My dad swears he’s seen and heard panthers late at night in the hills and hollers of southern West Virginia, back in the 50’s and 60’s. My uncles tell the same stories. There weren’t any deer there then, which the pumas might help explain. But now, there’s deer everywhere on my grandmother’s land. So, I don’t think there are any panthers around any more.
I guess they haven’t been to New Jersey