Father Saves Son From Cougar

Good that the kid was ok. Reminds me of the little old lady barely 5 feet tall that was so angry with a grizzly munching on her apple tree, she came roaring out of the house with a broom for a weapon. The bear took one look and ran. True story.

I doubt that the cat was being anything except a hungry cat. Sometimes I get the impression that we people think we are somehow "special", and that when we "go down to the woods today", the beasts that make it their home see some kind of neon sign saying "don't touch me" over our heads. But to them, we are just see another food source, and the only real decision they have to make is whether or not it is worth the effort........

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"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
- Justice Louis Brandeis

I never like to see a cougar shot, they are one of the most beautiful big cats in the world. I'm glad that kid was ok, though. He did the right thing and hunched up his back and covered up. His dad did the right thing too.

Sometimes we do really sick things, though, in our abusive treatment of the environment. More than once now in BC, I've seen them shoot a mother bear with cubs, just because she wandered too close to town.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

Most often it is the people that are the problem. It's agonizing to watch a mother bear and three very small cubs being shot, all due to the fact that some lazy human couldn't be bothered to pick their fruit.