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Wed, 16 Mar 2011 - 10:10 AM
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ALOHA, Oregon
Aloha residents believe that a cougar roaming their rural neighborhood has killed a horse and injured two others.
Bite marks thought to be those of a cougar were found on the neck of a surviving horse. A dead horse was found in the woods with parts of its face chewed off and other injuries that looked like injuries from a cougar.
Area residents have reported three similar attacks since January, but no cougar tracks have been positively identified so animal control officers have not been able to do anything about the attacks.
Oregon does not have a relocation program for cougars. So if residents can eventually prove that a cougar was behind the attacks, that animal would have to be trapped and killed.
Cougar and the horse
I am a cattle ranchers daughter and I still ranch and have horses. This is propaganda to support killing cougar for money. NO VET REPORT WAS DONE TO CONFIRM WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THESE HORSES. If the owner really cared about his horses, he would have had a Vet report done. Dogs kill more horses than cougar and bobcat combined. More pet domestic dogs kill livestock than cougars and bobcats combined. Pet domestic dogs kill/cripple 1/2 a million USA citizens per year and more children get shot and killed while out hunting or poaching than are killed by cougar each year. More people do not understand cougar than do. Killing cougar is all about money, not safety. There needed to be a Vet report done on this first!! Cougar are extinct in 36 States of the Union and the Eastern Coast forests are collapsing because cougar are gone. More cougar poached than legally killed. Mandatory tag reporting has fallen to 35% = cougar population model wrong. ODFW increased season, lowered tag costs = more cougar now killed than before M18. ODFW stated more human & livestock conflict happen with more cougar killing, less happens with less cougar killing. OSU cougar key cornerstone species. We need to ask, "How many cougar do we have? How many do we need? Beats Me! Lets find out before we kill anymore!"
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