Ghost of the Rockies……. The
Mountain Lion
Recently it has been brought to my attention the
extremely unfair treatment of the Cougar
a.k.a Mountain Lion. Once they thrived throughout all of North America from
Canada to Mexico from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans, but
now due to "human progress" they only remain in a corridor that spans
through the Rocky Mountains and the western
part of the continent.
By nature they are an elusive animal that doesn't like
contact with humans and are rare to find in the wild due to this. Man’s fear of
these cats has lead to the unfair and unbiased slaughter of these cats to the
point that for the first half of the twentieth century there were bounties put
out on these cats. They were hunted, male, female and even cougar cubs with no mercy!
But now they face an even greater danger from man....guided
hunts with dogs. Cornered on ledges and in trees, they are killed with no
chance of escape! Hardly fair and no game in killing a trapped, cornered
animal!
Many people look at Tiger's and ask why? Highly
endangered with three sub-species already wiped out yet we are doing the exact
same thing to the Cougar! Right now it is legal in ten U.S. states to hunt
Cougar's and I ask if you live in one of these states or even if you don't to
write a state representative and ask for the senseless slaughter of the Cougar
to be stopped before man wipes out North America's only big cat.
Copyright John Whittaker 4-12-12
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