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Pastimes : Our Animal Friends
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To: average joe who wrote (37)7/15/2009 6:47:06 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 2777
 
I tend to feel sorry for the cougars - they get their habitat squeezed and then go looking for a meal. Someone's cat, dog or in the most personal and scary case, child, looks like it could be a meal to the hapless cougar.

I attribute this to clear cutting which makes the larger predators visible and harder for them to find a meal in stealth. I prefer thinning forests as a logging operation, but people who do this for a living find it more difficult to take every tenth tree throughout the whole logged area as opposed to taking all of them in patches.

A living cougar could seriously mess up your day as a human, but I still want to live in a world that has top-level predators. I'd rather they tasered and tranquilized and then drop them in the back country.
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