Re: from a relatives trailcam
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArmaHeavy</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fireguyty</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArmaHeavy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I wish people would be careful with this kind of thing.</div></div>
Not being confrontational, but curious to your meaning. Its nature being captured on film is all I can see. However, I am always caught off guard by the way PETA or another ignorant group can spin something. </div></div>
There is a reason why people say they don't exist, and that reason keeps people from losing their land so some treehugging hippie, who watched too many talking cartoons growing up, and has to personify every animal he meets, and sees as having human characteristics, emotions, and feelings(hard to do with a walnut sized brain). On the other hand it could just be a bastard, shitbag, biologist who shuts down a certain area to hunting, so he can go out at night and study said animals with a large caliber rifle(This is called poaching).
By the way, both stories above are true. So I would appreciate it if people would stop giving the Endangered Species Act some more potential land grabs, and allowing the above to happen at the expense of every true conservationist(The American Hunting Man), and every respectful land owner.
These things <span style="text-decoration: underline">DO NOT</span> exist in any place in the U.S., and since the linked story above says that the photo came from south Texas then the cougar had to have crossed over from Mexico.
Please read the above a couple times, and then really analyse it. If you feel the need to comment that I'm wrong, then you don't get what I'm saying.</div></div>
Understood.
I'm from Nevada where they are all over and the culture for these lions is defferent. We were able to put in for tags to hunt them and it wasn't an easy tag to draw as they were firmly in check. Then the "environmentalists" who don't understand the need for predator control made them protected. After about 3 years they had decimated the mule deer herds and got into cattle before they started starving out. Then all the sudden the same "environmentalists" came up with an amazing concept called predator control, and begged the hunters to kill as many cats as possible.
10 years later we can still buy tags for lions over the counter, and the deer herds are just starting to get back in good shape.
Your method of saying that they don't exist in your part of the nation is a good one, until there gets to be to many. I for one refuse to believe that lions exist in Texas until the people that really understand what is going on tell me otherwise.