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On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:37:42 -0300, "YukonBound"
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Oh, and I favor re-introducing large, dangerous predators...cuts down on
the riff-raff. I am privileged to know some people who legally keep
large predators. The big cats and wolves I've meet seem more deserving
of life than your average palinite.

I doubt folks would be happy if they dropped a dozen mountain lions in
Rock Creek Park and called them "The Endangered Maryland Panther".
That is pretty much what happened with the Florida Panther.
To start with you would need to reduce all the speed limits so they
wouldn't get killed by cars, they would need to build 10 foot fences
around the beltway and the various other interstate feeders with
panther tunnels under the road. The people in Chevy Chase would just
have to understand a panther coming out of the park and eating pets
was just nature's way. Molesting the panther is a federal crime.
Just keep your kids inside at night and be careful where you jog.

Big news stories here lately is about three or four horses being attacked by
mountain lions.
Gov't still says we don't have any here.
http://www.outdoorns.com/features/cougar.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...ed-cougar.html

There was a lot of denial about the reported panther down the street
from my house until it was hit by a cop car a few miles away at the
airport. These guys may have a 50 square mile territory and patrol it
every night.
We had the same thing with black bears until one was caught on cell
phone cameras going through a dumpster in down town Ft Myers. In spite
of being seen every night for 2 weeks it took the FWC that long to
find it. Now they seem to have found a couple more. Wild hogs are all
over the place but they manage to stay hidden during the day too.

Yeah, we had Coyotes down on the shoreline near Essex for at least 20
years before the cops and EM admitted it... One of their wives ran head
long into one hiking behind her house, that's all it took No more
stray animals anymore though.. We had a family of the big dogs right
behind our house in the industrial park, they took care of all the
strays..

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