Are dogs more important than cougars?

[A_Britishcolumbian]

i wouldn't describe a farm dog as a pet. more like a shepherd and security guard in one.

[Fancy]

Call them want you want - doesn't negate the fact that the cougar was not in its own habitat and was not afraid of going after those dogs.

[Hassel99]

Are dogs more important than cougars?

Yes

[Bsuds]

I love my dog but a Cougar is only a 1 night stand.

So yes my Dog is much more important!

[A_Britishcolumbian]

i will say no pet or domestic animal is more important than a wild animal.

as for the cougars not being in their own habitat, the location sure looks like cougar habitat, and given that they are/were there, it would seem the cougars disagree.

https://maps.google.ca/maps?safe=off&q= ... CCoQ8gEwAA

[Fancy]

Their habitat is not farmland - livestock should be more important than cougars. And golf courses should be out of bounds for them - which is why they will get shot.

[trashgrimace]

The truth is we invade cougar territory more and more each year, so we are fully responsible of them becoming familiar to us and attacking our pets and children. Killing them without a second thought is absolutely evil to me. If we are not happy with their presence and cannot find a way to co-exist peacefully, we should LEAVE.

[LoneWolf_53]

a sickly cat taking big dogs?
a cat that eats 6 dogs in a period of about two months, starving?

Yes, starving. A healthy cat eats a 150 lb deer in 5 or 6 days. 6 dogs in 2 months is starving.

And now we know the rest of the story!

[A_Britishcolumbian]

hey trashgrimace, so good of you to pick up such an important subject.

while i feel your sentiments, i will disagree with the 'leave' aspect, slightly.

myself, i am a firm believer that we should make our homes and, our communities both wildlife friendly and wildlife safe. don't bait bears with garbage and other food, don't bait cougars with cats, dogs and other delectables and make our buildings both predator and vermin proof.

locally i find the city of kelowna to be so ridiculously callous and anti-wildlife. they would spend our tax dollars to torture and kill bunnies because they supposedly are mightier than our buildings and infrastructure, yet do virtually nothing about the wantonly destructive and invasive cats and squirrels that plague us.

our previous bounty of bunnies supported coyotes, lynx, cougar, bear, eagles, hawks, crows and fox to name a few, while offering us opportunities to see the same on a recurring basis.

[Fancy]

The truth is we invade cougar territory more and more each year, so we are fully responsible of them becoming familiar to us and attacking our pets and children. Killing them without a second thought is absolutely evil to me. If we are not happy with their presence and cannot find a way to co-exist peacefully, we should LEAVE.

Don't think so - not practical nor reasonable. Many cougars don't find themselves in subdivisions for a reason.

[Omnitheo]

Well there have been 3 cougar caused fatalities in North America in the last decade, compared to about 250 dog related fatalities in the US alone.

So in response to your question, yes dogs are more important to human population control than cougars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fa ... rica#2000s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_ ... ted_States

[trashgrimace]

myself, i am a firm believer that we should make our homes and, our communities both wildlife friendly and wildlife safe. don't bait bears with garbage and other food, don't bait cougars with cats, dogs and other delectables and make our buildings both predator and vermin proof.

I would love to see that happening. I would love to see our authorities interested in making our coexistence possible, instead of killing them to avoid facing our responsibilities. Cougars aren't protected here in BC. We hunt them for fun, we kill them to "protect ourselves" because we are scared as hell and, well... we believe a dog's life worth more than a cougar's. It's honestly revolting.

Something is wrong with us. We have no respect at all for wildlife. Someone got bitten by a shark? Let's kill all the great white, tiger and bull sharks more than nine feet long!

Who decided that we, human beings, were more important on this planet???

[Fancy]

We did as human beings, hunters and gatherers. A cougar unafraid of people isn't worth the risk. Educate people to scare off wildlife, not entice them.

[Daspoot]

When I read the first post of this thread I thought to myself, "Self, no amount of well-reasoned explaining will satisfy the O.P."

So far that's proving true.

[jimmy4321]

Absolutely they are more important, in addition they should also do away with as many coyotes as humanly possible.