Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Cougar(real four-legged one) comes into town

and winds up getting killed. Pretty straightforward, but check out some of the language:
...had to be euthanized...
...officers had no choice but to deploy their firearms...
I realize it's Californicated, but damn.

2 comments:

Windy Wilson said...

I blame Walt Disney. And not because of his cartoons.

Windy Wilson said...

Another thing. These animals have been protected for no particularly good reason since, IIRC, 1996. Since then the cougars have lost their fear of man, mauled a child or two or three in the coastal mountains south of Los Angeles, and mauled several adult humans, not to mention being observed stalking humans on numerous occasions.
They weren't a threatened species before, and certainly aren't now. They are becoming the alligators of California, except no one makes shoes or cougar steaks out of them. Plus there was the trail runner who was actually eaten by one in Colorado -- it's only a matter of time before that occurs in Kalifornia.