Posted on 03/25/2007 3:13:46 PM PDT by GladesGuru
DENVER (KWGN) — As mountain lions move closer to urban areas, the Colorado Division of Wildlife is proposing a pilot project to teach the cougars a lesson about humans and habitat: the DOW recommends using hazing techniques to lower the animals comfort level around people.
If animal rights whacko's have made hunting such predators illegal for a sufficient length of time, that entire population of predators will have to be "culled" ('ecospeak' for killed) until the historic level of fear of any human is reinstilled in said population of predators.
Yippee for the cougars and the bears and the wolves...Welcome all to my reality....
Sorry, shouldn't have said that. Wouldn't want the cougars to suffer high cholesterol from eating such GREASY FOOD.
Shoot, shovel and shut-up. Its worked for years, and of course the local customs vary. I've heard in Alaska, for brown bears, its shoot and sink (usually with a length of old chain for weight).
Hazing, eh? Is someone going to pull down the cougars' shorts from behind or force them through an all-night drinking binge?
Certainly an "outside-the-box" solution but I just don't think the cats will go along with it.
No, they're going to make them wear panties on their heads.
The second phase of the project calls for hazing the big cats by shooting them with rubber buckshot and trailing the cats with packs of dogs. Division of Wildlife spokesperson Tyler Baskfield says the program could be successful. "Hazing makes the animal associate people as a bad thing," said Baskfield.
So six lions are going to run back to the wilderness and tell all the other thousands of lions to stay away from bad people? Someone please tell me why we have government. Answer so we can increase the program to tag every lion. Money, money, money.
The second phase of the project calls for hazing the big cats by shooting them with rubber buckshot and trailing the cats with packs of dogs. Division of Wildlife spokesperson Tyler Baskfield says the program could be successful. "Hazing makes the animal associate people as a bad thing," said Baskfield.
So six lions are going to run back to the wilderness and tell all the other thousands of lions to stay away from bad people? Someone please tell me why we have government. Answer so we can increase the program to tag every lion. Money, money, money.
I think they've got that backwards.
Cougar's what?
(Signed)
The FR Apostrophe Police
Oopsie! Should have had that one space over.
Can I claim the cougar owned the act of "encroach"?
;-)
As a note of defense, please note that I am required to post the title accurately, hence the "cougar's".
Technically, the cougar should be spelled "couguar" because it is the correct scientific and popular spelling - since the 1999 paper Genomic Ancestry of the American Puma was presented.
How 'bout "Waterboarding them?"
How come we can haze and torment cougars, but it has been outlawed in bootcamp, and the Greek houses on campuses?
Gunner
How come we can haze and torment cougars, but it has been outlawed in bootcamp, and the Greek houses on campuses?"
Could it be that PETA's perverse pronounciamento, "Cats got rights!" has become public policy?
;-)
Make them "uncomfortable" around humans? Shooting them on sight is the only way to protect our children.
The vast majority of government exists to give a paycheck to the otherwise unemployable.
SSS. Shoot, Shovel, Shutup.
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