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From: Randall Young <ryoung@NAVCOMTECH.COM>
Cc: shop-talk@autox.team.net <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:16 AM
Subject: RE: Cougars (was : blowing up gophers)
>> Now the naturalists are trying
>> to figure out whether it is truly wild cougar or a feral.
>
>Ok, I'll bite, what difference does it make if it was once 'tame' or not ?
Not that you will bite, but that the cougar might. :-)
I would consider a feral cougar that had lived with people to be great deal
more dangerous to people.
The great advantage of a truly wild cougar, a member of a race of wild
cougars which has remained largely incognito in Minnesota for generations,
is that they are clearly afraid of people. This is a good thing. This is
not to say that wild cougars have not attacked people in the USA. This has
clearly happened, but not in Minnesota.
>Just a question of whether wild ones are extinct ?
Well, that too, of course.
Here in Minnesota, we have the only population of timber wolves in the
lower 48 to have remained continuously in the wild. They don't attack
people. They avoid people. There has never been a case of a person killed
in Minnesota by a healthy wild timber wolf.
Wild dogs, which would be feral dogs, scare the hell out of me, because they
are probably not afraid of me.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/ http://www.vtr2002.org
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