Posted on 02/25/2009 11:12:37 AM PST by george76
—thanks—read about him in the outdoor magazines when I was a kid—
Oh, boy, a large man eating cat, far more dangerous than the mountain lion, will now become a protected species in Arizona and other western states as it starts to spread out and increase it’s range by eating excess humans! If you think they are not man eaters ask around the south American jungles, they will tell you the truth about Jags.
Jaguars are the only cats in North America that roar. They're considered the largest cats in the Western Hemisphere. Adults commonly weigh up to 211 pounds (96 kg), though 300-pounders have been reportedHey, what could go wrong? Thanks geo.
“How fast will these be shot once people understand the range of their habitat?”
How fast will these be shot once people understand the danger such cats pose?
Fixed it.
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S S & S !!!!
Mild-dispositioned pumas are an imaginary breed. An old friend had captured a Puma as a cub around 1958, and kept her in his garage, which he had turned into a cage with chain-link fencing across where the door had been. The last time that I saw her, before the state had confiscated her, was in 1969, and at that time she was still nasty and wild to her feeders most of the time.
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What a cute putty!!!!
That one looks to be a 300-lber. At least.
Perhaps we should kill everything, everywhere...that way no one will ever get hurt no matter how remote the chance?
In Comparison, My friend.
I am aware of increasing numbers of cougar attacks in the U.S.
Read Peter Capstick’s accounts of Jaguar hunts however.
A cougar will not usually attack an adult male and they’ll usually run from a pack of dogs.
They will normally tree when hunted and were frequently dispatched with a pistol after treeing.
Jaguars not so.
“Perhaps we should kill everything, everywhere...that way no one will ever get hurt no matter how remote the chance?”
Perhaps one might consider looking up “reductio ad absurdam”?
As an unambiguous fact, when large bodied predators are hunted regularly such predators learn which species can, and will, kill them.
Check page 109 of The Yellowstone Park Nature Book. The description deliniates why wolves in America were not a danger to man whereas they were (and still are) in Eastern Europe, etc.
Hint: The line containing “...they learned to their great regret that nearly every man and boy carried a rifle.”
When gunpowder speaks, beasts obey.
Thanks...and FRegards,
What you read is not what I wrote.
As long as animals are hunted, they understand their “proper place”.
Start enforcing the ESA and one removes the only thing that removed man from the diet of predators. I refer to gunpowder, of course.
If you are as fond of large bodied predators as you seem, consider this: a predator which has learned to be deathly afraid of man is a predator which may be allowed to exist.
If you really do value predators like jaguars, as I do, then you might consider that the only jaguar acceptable to modern man is one that is deathly afraid of man.
On the other hand, if you have drunk the enviro-socialist Kool-Ade, then the only answer will be immense amounts of land - “critical habitat”, blah, blah, blabber, blabber.
In closing, I do not agree with spending immense amounts of money on “reintroducing” a dangerous predator which was at the very northern extent of its range.
To date, all large bodied predator programs have been pools of unending cess, into which property rights, the earnings of generations yet unborn., and even human lives have disappeared.
Being mauled, killed and eaten is not hypothetical, as those who live where jaguars lurk will tell you.
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