I am a hunter, in case you missed that somehow. I love being in the out of doors and stalking my own food. I understand that humans aren't the only hunters in the woods. And I respect the others. The bobcats, the badgers, the osprey, the cougar.
But not when they are artificially protected until the very game they hunt becomes scarce. Not when they begin to stalk me in the woods. Not when they enter into human neighborhoods fearlessly to kill and eat pets in fenced yards. Not when they follow family groups with little children in busy parks.
Like some cougars in my area. They are no longer private, wild animals that do their hunting in the woods, away from humans. They are stalking families in parks in nearby a populated area of 200,000 people.
I spoke before the legislature when a proposal was up for a vote that would ban dog tracking of cougar forg hunting purposes, warning of the threat to humans and domestic pets and livestock when the population of the predatory cats grew disproportionately. The ban was effected anyway, and now tax payers are charged for salaried state hunters to track and kill the animals. We have lost the revenue of the tags that hunters used to buy, we have lost direct control over the population, and now we have the animals in our parks and yards and pay state workers to kill them.
Do bunny hugging anti-hunting activists ever wish they had a brain?
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