Mountain lion killed in Arkansas.

**don3778** · 11-13-2014, 09:45 PM

Don't get me wrong, I am not an animal activist by any means, but I would much rather it to have lived on to keep making more camp fire stories around the deer camp.

**Rees Guide** · 11-13-2014, 09:50 PM

I prolly wouldn't have shot it either but I ain't gonna second guess what someone else did either.

**don3778** · 11-13-2014, 10:13 PM

I wasn't second guessing anybody, I just said I hated he felt threatened and had to shoot him. It's like releasing a big crappie once caught, he will give someone else a thrill one day. The cougars days are over, no more stories from him.

**Crappie Greg** · 11-13-2014, 10:46 PM

now if someone would just kill a Bigfoot id be impressed!!!! Lol !!!!!!

**jigflinger** · 11-13-2014, 11:11 PM

If there was a breeding population on mountain lions the AGFC would probably have to develop a management plan for them. That might wreak havoc on deer management. Just my thinking. (dangerous sometimes).

**Eatmorecrappie** · 11-13-2014, 11:22 PM

I wouldn't have shot it either. After reading the article I hope they do a good thorough investigation.
Hey Crappie Greg you never saw that program about Bigfoot and a hunter said he had shot a juvenile one and covered in up with leaves and straw? Then he goes back out there (can't remember how long he waited) with someone else and it was gone, no remains no nothing. Yea right I believe that one.

**CrappiePro** · 11-14-2014, 04:54 AM

I don't think that cat is the only cat in Arkansas. You can bet your bottom dollar there are more out there. Just get on Google earth and look at all the forests these things have to stay hidden in. Lots of Forests and Mnt's to stay hidden in for a life time. I would not shoot it unless I felt threatened by it and I think the AGFC should manage a small population in the Ozarks or Ouchita Mnts. And open a season on them for hunters who would like to take one.

**NIMROD** · 11-14-2014, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Why not shoot it, its an animal not something sacred.

Want them to go extinct like many species have ?

**NIMROD** · 11-14-2014, 07:04 AM

Most people don't understand, the commission did not say there were none. Not a breeding population. Young male Mt. Lions have been known to travel hundreds of miles. We have a few scattered around.
The Wolves we had here were smaller Red Wolves and have interbreed with Coyotes for the most part according to studies.
Heck Texas has Wolves , Mt Lions , and even a few Jaguars moving up from Mexico. If they travel as far as they say not unreasonable to see an occasional one here.

**Rees Guide** · 11-14-2014, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Want them to go extinct like many species have ?

I really don't care Nimrod, there is a reason they put a bounty on them years ago, they are predetors plain and simple. If I see one near a cow pasture or a populated area then it would die, out in the National forest prolly not. Much the same as done here on private land, landowner has some rights too. Did the same with a rattlesnake few weeks ago, had it been around houses I would have went out of my way to kill it but he was in the national forest and no threat to anyone or in the mountain lions case no ones cows, goats, dogs or cats....
On my granddads farm in central MS every spring and fall we have "panthers", what the old folks call em, pass through. Sometimes nothing seems to be harmed and sometimes a calf or dog is missing. they hunt and kill to live and can be a nuisance.

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