Shelby White
Posted on 02/27/2014 1:26:04 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
TWISP, Wash. — An 11-year-old girl shot a cougar that was following her 14-year-old brother to their home in north central Washington, the state Fish and Wildlife Department said.
The female cougar killed last week was about 4 years old and weighed about 50 pounds — half of what it should weigh, said Officer Cal Treser.
"This cougar was very, very skinny," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
There were two wolves illegally killed near Twisp in 2011 but only one known wolfpack in the entire North Cascades. IMO, no where near enough wolves to decimate the deer population.
Shelby White
What a great kid!
From the story “There may be more cougars than usual or they may be having trouble finding deer, their usual prey, agents said.”
Wolves?
“Skinny means hungry...”
Yep. Many years ago, I went on a canoe fishing/camping trip in the Boundary Waters, here in MN. When we paddled out after 6 days with no contact with the outside world, I sprinted for the outfitters office to get an ice cold Coca Cola.
I asked the gal behind the counter what was going on and she replied that a bear had attacked several campers that very morning in an area not far from where we had camped.
They tracked it and eventually killed it. Turned out to be a sow that that was very under weight. She had gone through some thoughtless campers’ garbage and ingested one of those plastic six-pack rings and now couldn’t eat enough to survive with the blockage from the plastic.
More than likely.
Wow....that is a skinny kitty!
There are some great humor posts on this thread, yours among them.
Teaching children gun culture is making a comeback. The problem was that a lot of familial knowledge had been lost; but what children are being taught today is often much better than what they used to be taught.
And it is not just limited to pistol-rifle-shotgun, either. With the movies Brave and The Hunger Games, suddenly it has again become fashionable for girls to learn archery. And though instruction is still rare, there are now a multitude of knives available, that are very complementary to guns.
The big cultural jump will be when guns are again equated with maturity and competence. Coming of age, as it were.
....”The big cultural jump will be when guns are again equated with maturity and competence. Coming of age, as it were”....
Having grown up in rural America it was “normal” for the young men to attain their hunting license and go on the hunt. My family were members of a hunting club complete with a mountain hunting cabin we’d go to for outages. It was great fun as a kid to see parents and kids gather like that.
There was skeet shooting and archery in the fields and great romps through the woods. All the kids just loved it. I can still smell the bacon/sausage and egg breakfasts the men cooked for all. Sweet memories for sure!
I think we deprive kids today of these favorable experiences
where men were men, and woman were woman,...and kids were able to be just kids.
....”The big cultural jump will be when guns are again equated with maturity and competence. Coming of age, as it were”....
Having grown up in rural America it was “normal” for the young men to attain their hunting license and go on the hunt. My family were members of a hunting club complete with a mountain hunting cabin we’d go to for outages. It was great fun as a kid to see parents and kids gather like that.
There was skeet shooting and archery in the fields and great romps through the woods. All the kids just loved it. I can still smell the bacon/sausage and egg breakfasts the men cooked for all. Sweet memories for sure!
I think we deprive kids today of these favorable experiences
where men were men, and woman were woman,...and kids were able to be just kids.
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