Tag: mountain lions

Where, oh where, has the Eastern Mountain Lion gone?

This is interesting:

Eastern Mountain Lions May Be Extinct, but Locals Still See Them

Officials ponder changing cat’s status, causing roar of protest; sighting a ‘U.F.O.’

My first reaction was one of confusion: why wouldn’t mountain lions move east? The coyotes did, after all. The Northeast would be fertile territory, thanks to all the goram forest rats – excuse me: ‘deer’ – running around. All they’d have to do is walk.

Which makes it weird that the government isn’t finding any.  Either there aren’t any mountain lions east of the Mississippi any more, or else the feds would find it convenient to declare them extinct and not have to try to track them anymore. Assuming the latter… I could live with that, actually. A government conspiracy to not have to stick its nose into things would be so amazingly sui generis that I’m legitimately reluctant to poke at it. I mean, what’s my victory condition, here*?

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Again: Mountain lions do not belong in human-settled areas.

Oy: “A mountain lion creeping alongside a Southern California woman’s backyard wall forced road closures as wildlife officials tried to capture it.” For apparently 90 minutes. Do Ventura County police not carry guns? …because if this was a large dog causing this much trouble they’d have simply shot it*. A mountain lion, on the other hand… sure, isolate it, catch it, and release it out in the wild.  Whereupon it will simply come back to where all he tasty, slow-moving food is.

Shoot the lion.  Keep shooting them.  They’ll eventually take the hint.  Heck, it’s not like they’re even endangered in California.

Via @MelissaTweets.

Moe Lane

PS: I know that the cops are prohibited from shooting them, sure.  But they shouldn’t be.

*Local cops actually did shoot a dog in my town house complex a while back.  Something like five, six times. And no, I’m not sure why actual wild predators get more consideration than somebody’s ill-tempered, yet theoretically domesticated, pet.