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...mountain lions consider traveling in pairs...
KELO shares an AP report that South Dakota Game Fish & Parks is proposing new mountain lion regulations. Good idea: pass enough regulations, and the mountain lions will think this is Minnesota and move somewhere freer, like Montana. ;-)
No, no, the new regulations would be on shooting mountain lions. Landowners would have to get a special license, but they would then be permitted to shoot mountain lions on their property any time during the year.
Well, one mountain lion. GF&P only wants to let you kill one lion. I suppose if you bag one lion, word will get out in the lion 'hood that you're one bad dude, not to be messed with.
The report doesn't make clear whether that's one lion per property or one lion per person on the property. So if our friend PP gets nervous about the big cats, maybe he can get a license for everyone in the family (that would be a lot of dead cats!).
At peril of sounding like I'm playing the testosterone card that I have elsewhere decried, let me declare now my intention to violate South Dakota law. Regardless of the regulations GF&P proposes, if I see mountain lions on my property and I have weaponry handy, I will shoot first (and shoot often), and call Conservation Officer Brandon Gust later.
Thank you to councilors Starr and Neitzert
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I enjoyed the two speeches of these outgoing councilors last night.
Especially Pat’s. Pat could have talked about his policy tenure, and he
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After Cory bags his first lion on Lake Herman, this was overheard in the mountain lions' den...
ReplyDeleteLion #1: They say that cat Cory is one bad mother-
Lion #2: Shut your mouth!
Lion #1: But I'm only talkin' bout Cory!
Lions #2 and 3: Then we can dig it!
Sorry... I was listening to Issac Hayes last night on the computer!
It is this kind of unabashed lawlessness that is supporting the anti-intellectualism in South Dakota.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't the right answer be to contact the proposers of the new regulations, rather than rebel against a regulation that hasn't even been written yet? Are you saying that some how you know better than the good people at GF&P's, whose job it is to understand and create said regulations?
If I see a mountain lion on my property, I'll shoot him or her without hesitation -- using my digital camera!
ReplyDeleteHar har, Joe!
ReplyDeleteWe should probably worry more about anti-intellectual voters and politicians than about anti-intellectual mountain lions (or are the cats pro-intellectual... the way I'm pro-steak?).
Stan, if you get any pictures, Madville Times wants the scoop!