Posted on 02/26/2024 5:06:25 AM PST by marktwain
There’s a reason we exterminated wolves in the first place. If some goober wants wolves out there running loose, great. They can pay all of the costs for radio tagging that wolf and all of its offspring and all of the domestic animals at whatever price the owner feels is warranted out of their pocket into perpetuity.
If it kills some little girls pony and she says her pony is worth a bazillion dollars then I hope the wolf’s owner has a fat wallet.
I was walking my dog along the Mississippi River about 15 years ago when a wolf ran away about 20 yards infront of me. Everyone tells me it was a coyote. If it was, it was the biggest coyote I ever saw and I have seen coyotes while walking the dog on the streets of Chicago in my neighborhood at the time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/coyotes-chicago-lincoln-park/
What stupid policies are doing is forcing every day Americans to carry, whether it be illegals, run of the mill never prosecuted thugs, or protected wolves - it’s dangerous out there.
They are just prepping the wolves for the reintroduction of Mammoths. Soon the wolves will have plenty to eat, besides cats, dogs, and children.
I don’t suppose there’s a Cougar problem in North Wisconsin.
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Most of the cougars live in the suburbs and cities.
Um.....wolves are least of our problems.
There is an active policy in many Fish & Game or other official departments, to downplay and ignore reports of dangerous, large predators.
In Northern Wisconsin, people who were training dogs, treed a mountain lion. They reported it to the Department of Natural Resouces.
The DNR official said, there aren't any mountain lions in northern Wisconsin.
The dog trainers went out the next day, treed the mountain lion again, and took video of it.
Then the DNR official had to admit there was at least one mountain lion in northern Wisconsin.
This happened a while back and was about three miles from my house.
https://abc7chicago.com/archive/6080893/
That’s what I thought.
Suburbs and cities, where the salons and boutiques are
That is one massive coyote!
Rats are our biggest problem. I’m talking about the two legged variety.
I carry 16+1, 16 and 13 in S.E. WA.
Wolves
Bears
Cougar
Coyote
Feral Dogs
Evil Humans
In addition to my Model 70 .30-06 with 5 rounds.
Humans and predators don’t mix. I’m top of the food chain. Stay armed.
Coyotes and Wolves interbreed and produce viable offspring.
They are all part of one large species whose genes produce many phenotypes.
There is a continuum from small coyotes to large wolves.
True!
I cringe when I see these videos on YouTube about bears in people’s back yards or even patios and porches. They always fawn over them, especially if there are cubs.
A mother bear who brings her cubs into your backyard while you are around is teaching them they have nothing to fear from humans, and that the place is a food source. Many people think there is nothing scarier than a mother bear around her cubs, so will just watch them without doing anything. This needs to be highly discouraged!
Mama needs to know, and through her cubs, too, that you are to be feared. Scream, yell, bang on pots, blow a canned fog horn, shoot firearms—do what you can to chase her and her cubs out (just be careful for yourself).
I live in the foothills of known cougar territory in So Cal.
A couple of years ago, we were awakened by the sound of every dog in the neighborhood barking and howling (including our own two). Husband went out and there was a mountain lion “treed” on top of a telephone pole in our backyard. It disappeared after a few minutes.
Next day, husband called it in to the city - which asks us to report mountain lion sightings. My husband was told he did NOT see a mountain lion (husband is from a hunting family) - and that what he most likely saw a house cat. He slammed down the phone and said he’d never call in a sighting again.
I was told by a NH Fish and Game officer that IF they admitted that there was a mountain lion population then they would have to create a budget to monitor them.
They would have to tag them. Count their kits, etc.
Then they would be considered endangered in the state because there would be so few of them. Next thing is there would be people who want to hunt them. They would have to create policies regarding Mountain lions.
So, it is just easier to pretend they do not actually live here. They just occasionally pass through on their way to find a new home.
The one famously killed by a car on the Merritt Parkway in Greenwich, CT several years back was traced back to the Black Hills of SD. They did this by testing the DNA in its scat.
So, by NOT admitting that Mountain Lions live here they are saving you tax money.
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