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Cougars belong in open country
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Jan. 3, 2010 11:12 pm
About the cougar shot in Iowa: One letter writer stated that the cougar was just sitting on a limb, minding his own business. He was actually up there to pounce on whatever came by. If the hunter had walked under the tree, he would have had a broken neck and been killed.
It's just a matter of time until a little child is mauled and eaten by one of these efficient killers. Cougars belong in the big country of the Rocky Mountains, not here in the populated Midwest.
George R. Briggs
Lisbon
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