I have just the place:
Posted on 05/03/2005 9:41:09 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
It’s wrong! It’s just plain wrong for the federal government to force private land owners to not only allow government panthers to roam on private property, but to let the panthers feast on the landowners’ pets.
The Third Amendment forbids government from "quartering" soldiers on private property without the owner’s consent; panthers, however, and other so-called "endangered species" must be quartered and fed by the landowner - without his consent.
Jack and David Shealy’s petting zoo at their campground near Ochopee, Florida became a buffet table for a radio-collared panther released in the area by the Game Commission. Night after night, the panther jumped the fence into the petting zoo, and helped himself to goats and emus and chickens - without the owners’ consent.
Jack pleaded with the Game Commission to remove the panther, as the Commission had done when another panther pestered pets at a nearby Indian Reservation. The Game Commission refused, and scolded the Shealys for being in the area they considered to be panther habitat. Never mind that the Shealys opened their campground in 1971, and never had a problem until the Game Commission decided to release its panthers.
A neighbor, Jan Michael Jacobson, Director of the Everglades Institute, offered to set up a video camera and a light, to try to catch the panther in the act. A videotape of the slaughter, they reasoned, would provide proof positive that the menacing panther should be removed. On the appointed night, the Shealys staked out a goat in their front yard, and Jacobson set up his camera. They were not disappointed. . . . .
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I have just the place:
Shoot, shovel, and shutup.
Similar to a rancher's solution applied here: Shot; shoveled; attached collar to a log & launced it down the Cheyenne River; shut up.
Best solution, though I haven't figured out how somebody, if anyone, did it: mountain lion ended up in front of a train in Okalahoma, over 600 miles away from 'home' where it had been collared.
So far, game people believe the young male was migrating. Maybe it was; maybe it had help, but is interesting either way. The train is the hard part to figure out.
Easy solution: Put the poisoned carcass of a freshly-killed goat in the penned-in enclosure. Cat comes along and steals the freebie despite your best efforts, i.e. the fence; cat never comes back.
If government says the panther should not be killed then try to trap it and then release it in a politicians office.
See if that changes the government policies.
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