For those not in the know, here's the story in a nutshell...
Cougar populations, for unknown reasons spike beyond comprehension. Many theories out there, yes, but nobody has all the facts as to why. Regardless, we have an astronomical cougar population. After years of cougar conflicts, the AB government allows landowners to shoot cougars on their own land, later allows a fall cougar hunting season without the use of dogs. Both steps in the right direction, but not enough cats being taken to solve the problem.
So trappers with our snares and 330 bodygrippers hit a number cougars annually, accidentally of course. We always did catch a few, but with the massive spike in the cougar population, the cougar bycatch spikes accordingly.
Trapper catches a cougar, turns it in and it is registered, then the cat is confiscated and is hauled to a freezer, trapper is given some lame excuse such as animal will be used for science, of which a small percentage is, and the cats hang in the freezer until freezer burned and or specific time, and the cats are incinerated.
Disgusting...
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