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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 3095867" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>Some of the things in Texas' proposed changes for mountain lions are borrowed from other states regulations on them that are already in place. The numbers of lion and human interactions will increase as the populations of both increases. The lion only comes out on top in the short run, then gets hunted down and euthanized as they call it to make it more palatable to the people in general. I think when you look at the majority of our population, they have been shielded from the realities of life. Death is dealt with by others in today's world here in the United States. We don't have to take care of our dead for ourselves now someone else does it and we pay them to do it. They are most times put in a hospital or care facility, where someone else does the work of dealing with them. The vast majority of the population doesn't live close to animals or agriculture and aren't exposed to that aspect of life. Not very many people have actually seen an animal, or human being in a natural setting being born or dying. They have never seen an animal really being taken down by a predator to be eaten by it. How many of the population has seen 20 or 30 lambs killed with just their soft parts eaten to take back to a den full of young puppies, how many have seen a heavy female killed by predators with her young pulled out of her so that the liver and lungs could be eaten and taken back to the pups? Not very many. Breakaway devices aren't a bad thing on a snare, education in the use of snares is a good thing, if it is listened to and learned. Trapping with leghold traps isn't a bad thing if the person doing it knows how get their targeted animal by being taught how to. That isn't the case in so many instances' people are just turned loose to figure things out on their own, or just kind of muddle through things leaving a bad impression on others of how wrong things can go. That sticks in the minds of those that haven't seen the reality of the world more than the right ways that things go when done correctly and others are taught the better ways of doing things. This site is here to help others to learn and discuss the ways that we have figured out to do things better, it is all of our responsibility to help others be better people, I can take a good person and help them be even better, but I can't take a bad person and turn them into a good person God is the only help for them. I and others have seen what happens when people are left to learn things on their own tons of mistakes happen some people will decide that they already know it all and will make a mess of things then some other person has to come clean up after them as they go on making another mess to be cleaned up. You don't have to agree with me or me with you we aren't built that way we are built to have our own thoughts, but hopefully we are also built to be able to learn, even by the mistakes of others. I can share my ways of hunting, calling, trapping and snaring predators with others and hope that they can be helped by it as they can do the same for me, I can tell you what is the best that I have found so far for me but I can't say this is the only and best way so now you have to do it this way or else. I don't know all of the different circumstances that are playing into the decision-making process in other parts of the country, or all of the foolish things that have played into it. I can only see what I am shown and take the time to look farther into it and know that what once was now has gone to the wayside mostly because of others and a few bad decisions. In the end there are so many outside influencers that are causing a lot of problems for others who started green peace? Who started PETA ? It's not just somethings that some person here has thought up.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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