If no cougars are ever seen, it’s a sign of global warming.
If a cougar is spotted in the city, it’s because urbanization and development have stolen it’s habitat.
If they shoot the cougar, it was a heartbreaking and senseless loss.
If they don’t shoot the cougar and it hurts someone, it’s humanities’ fault for incringing on it’s territory.
And no matter what happens, as it states in the article, the union will claim it’s chronically understaffed.
Should mention there is a poll regarding what the police should have done in the article.
I wonder if it ever occurred to these “Einsteins” that perhaps it has something to do with a proliferation of cougars? A good friend of mine used to hunt SERIOUSLY in Alberta in the 1950’s, 60’s and early 70’s and says he never once saw a cougar. He saw tracks and other traces but never actually once saw one. They are spotted all the time now and have attacked humans.
As for how vicious these damned things can be, one only has to have an encounter with something as small and fluffy as a common house cat when it is in anger mode and then multiply that by a thousand or so to see just what they can do.
But the know-it-all urbanites chime in. Frankly, they make me sick.
If you see a cougar, keep a close watch out for an enviro-nut
sleeping in a nearby van who probably just drove 2000 miles
east and dumped it “to help balance the ecology.”
Oh the trauma! I wonder how these idiots would react if they were watching this cougar pull down, kill and begin eating a little child?
So how are the millions of illegal aliens flooding into the US affecting the cougars?
From the article, a cross was erected for the poor little defemseless cougar.
How do they know it wasn’t a muslim cougar? It was in Nenshe’s town after all.
The poor cougar was just seeking medical attention but was feeling alienated by the institutionalized white privilege as represented by the building itself.
Larry – that question was answered almost 20 years ago.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-05-27/news/9405270287_1_lion-cub-mountain-lion-barbara-schoener
Put cougars at the border. There’s a thought.
Anyone who has raised a kitten to cat-hood has Known Pain!!!
PeggyU >
Hmmmm interesting.
That would be something like deciding if your President should be Black, Gay, or Muslim next time around, yet you can’t have all three at once.
That would definitely make some Liberal heads explode to be sure, nice one.
Sheesh….Could they not get a folk singer to offer it a sandwich?
Cougars are not on Alberta’s endangered species list; they’re not becoming extinct.
In this case, a predatory animal showing no instinct to avoid humans needed to be removed from the gene pool.
A cougar that doesn’t run away is best made dead. I’ve been serenaded by their song which sound like a baby stuck with a pitchfork but have never actually seen one in the wild. Someone with hounds killed a couple on my next door neighbor’s farm. I have a shoot and ask questions later policy where large carnivores are involved.
In this video we see some moonbats getting far too close to some swimming elephants:
http://www.break.com/video/elephant-attacks-tourists-271587
When the elephants come ashore, the moonbats stay too close, and the elephants are able
to do something about it. As a result of the attack, two of the moonbats were injured and
one was killed. Truly “awesome”, as a female moon bat says. Is anyone sorry?
Here are some excerpts from the story of a Vancouver Island guy who was seriously injured and nearly killed by a cougar but escaped with his life because he carried a lock-blade knife.
“At that very moment, Parker found himself staring into the eyes of a healthy young male Puma concolor… This one was an arm’s length from his face.”
“What do we do then? (Conservation officer)Brunham says the question is largely academic: ‘Most people attacked by cougars never even saw it coming.’ But he does have some advice, based on his own years of experience, and it is the same advice offered by wildlife biologists who have conducted in-depth studies of human-cougar encounters throughout North America. Don’t turn away from the animal. Don’t run. Make yourself look big. Shout. Bark. Growl. Act like a big, mean predator. Do not play dead. It does not work with cougars. And if the cat attacks, Brunham says, fight back, just as David Parker did.”
“That is Parker’s advice too. ‘I’m a survivor,’ he says. ‘And I can tell you, you have to be very, very wary of these animals.'”
“A cougar can cover a distance of up to six metres in one leap. Weighing as much as 100 kilograms and reaching 2.7 metres in length, a third of which is tail, the cat can kill prey twice its weight by snapping the animal’s neck with its strong jaws and sinking its four-centimetre fangs into the spine. Its abrasive tongue helps strip meat from the bones.”
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/wildlife-nature/articles/pdfs/cougar-cougar-attack.pdf
Thanks for that C_Miner, I think!
Dang, here I thought this was going to be about the other kind of “cougar”.
I see the poll favors tranquilizing the cute, cuddly cougar and letting him try again. Maybe in a more conservative voting district.
Right! The ‘other kind’ tends to ignore defenseless women and children but seems to have a special predilect for horny, wealthy, mature males of the species.
Why oh why could they not have tried “kitty kitty”, that cuddly kitty would’ve come for a bowl of milk, oh the katanity oh the katanity! Damn but lefties are effing stupid, to stupid for a description. When kitty kitty takes your old collie right off your deck and eats the old fellow before he gets 300 feet leaving only some hair and tail maybe then these morons will understand these dudes are serious. I hate sharing a good planet with morons.
Cougars are predatory animals that usually kill their prey with bites to the neck or head.
If they stalk humans, shoot the buggers.
Yeah, like all cats they’re sneaky. Most of the ‘to the neck and head’ attacks come from behind.
a few cougar stats:
-they can jump 9 Feet high from a standing position(that’s 1 foot higher than your house’s ceiling)
-they can kill and drag 3 times their weight in a prey animal
-Males typically weigh 115 to 220 lb., which means they can kill an animal which is in the 300 to 600 lb. range.(most humans) and drag it away for feeding
kill them all, says I
These pussies that weep crocodile tears for the cute and cuddly fluffy little kitten are undoubtedly the same sterile urban cocoon dwellers that hold their noses and say “pee-ew” when driving past a cattle farm on a hot summer day.
“If they stalk humans, shoot the buggers.”
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Depends. If it’s stalking leftards,go for it! And there is a ton of them out there.Maybe the cougars can be trained to make leftards their natural food source?
Let that be a warning to anybody who might think of getting near or, god forbid, having a nap in the flower beds there!!