Dislike cougars.. not at all. I find them beautiful. And in the right place, a great addition to the balance of the wildlife food chain. Just not Wisconsin. The point of this thread is, the DNR wants to tag and study a cougar in Wisconsin. That to me indicated that the DNR in their backward views, would not object to a population (even a small one)of cougars in Wisconsin. And my point is.. there is no place in this State where population density is such, that the cougar would live without interactions with humans. And while these cats might run on a chance encounter with humans, we still have to face the fact they are a Class A predator, able to kill a human. You add children into that mix, and your asking for a terrible incident. So why not stop it now. We survived for years with out them among us just fine. Why change something that works. Why risk having a predator of that type among us? But of course should cougars gain a foot hold, and one attack or even kill a human, we would be told, the cat was old, sick, toothless, suffering from PMS, or any other thing they think we'd believe instead of admitting, they goofed up and allowed a breeding population in the state.

It's the same for bear and wolves. Well your dog was attacked because it wasin a wolf rookery area.

When I first attended the wolf meetings, a biologist for the DNR told us we were getting excited over nothing. That the population of wolves was so low that we might live in Northern Wisconsin all our lives and never see one in the wild. Well we all know she was not telling the truth, because her lips were moving. All it was at that time was a smoke and mirror show to calm people while the DNR pressed their agenda. I'd hate to see that happen with cougars.

And I never kill snakes. Bull snakes, milk snakes, etc were welcome on the farm and we were ordered to leave them alone. The old man would not even let us play with them. Besides a snake does not concern me. When I see them, they want to escape. I have no concern of them trying to eat me.