Oregon’s cougar population has exploded, now over 7,000. Each one kills a deer-sized animal a week. That’s over 300,000 kills a year. This isn’t balanced. It’s a collapse.

With all due respect, Oregon, my home, is an absolute sh!thole on every level. The whole state is completely mismanaged.

ODFW is just as woke as all the other failed agencies in Oregon. They've destroyed animal populations and family hunting traditions.

Oregon wants to end hunting. Add in wolf kills. In 10 years there won’t be enough deer and elk to hunt.

When they basically outlawed hunting cougar my immediate reaction was that lots of vegans that likely supported this action would soon be getting eaten by cougars since vegans smell like deer to a cougar.

7 years ago there was a cougar in our yard in Portland. No one believed me. Then a year later it was caught on a home security camera by a neighbor on our block. We lived near Tryon Creek, pretty centrally surrounded by city for miles on all sides. What happens when the deer population is down? All is fine until one takes a child. We already had the first person killed hiking alone several years ago on Mt Hood.

This is my sore spot. Glad to see it being discussed. Cougars don't merely kill to eat. They just kill. Putting our natural herds aside for a moment, cougars prey on our livestock too. Within two days, one took out our entire production stock. 3-goats. Gone. In 2-days. Then left them to rot while the cougar moved on to the neighbors farm. The hoops we had to jump because the restrictions Oregon puts on farmers for simply protecting their livestock is petty. It is simply government overreach; a set of rules and restrictions set by people who have neither lost income due to predators, nor had to clean up carcasses left by them. NOTE: Cougar is capped at 970 kills per year statewide. There is no way we can reduce their population with that limit. The zone that covers Portland stretches all the way to Brookings and is limited to 180 kills in that zone. In addition to over $200 per year (+$16 for each addl tag required for heavy cougar population areas) here is the ridiculousness that is Oregon: "No person shall use dogs for the taking or pursuit of cougar." [How the heck are we supposed to get them up in a tree?! Ask them nicely?!] "Any cougar taken must be presented at an ODFW office [over 100 miles away in many cases] within 10 days of the kill to be checked and marked. Hide and skull must be unfrozen when presented for check-in. Please call ahead to make an appointment to have cougar checked. Check-in must occur during normal business hours (Mon. - Fri., 8-5). Hunters are required to check in the hide of any cougar taken, with skull and proof of sex attached, and submit the reproductive tract of any female cougar taken. [We have to be surgeons too?!] Call ahead to your nearest field office to make an appointment; do not show up without an appointment as ODFW offices remain closed to in-person visitors except by appointment at this time." Cant just dig a hole and plop them in it after taking the hide. Oregon is a nanny state.

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Can we also point out that if they're injured, they get really bold and take your pets off the porch while you're sitting next to them.

It is truly outrageous that this was ever referred to voters. Between the cougars and reintroduction of wolves we will end up with very little big game. Additionally, cougars and wolves have unnecessarily cost cost ranchers incalculable financial loss and anguish.

We had a cougar walking around our neighborhood in Salem just recently! And we aren’t out in the country.

Elk don’t even bugle anymore. You bugle for them and the wolves come in. The Metolius Green Ridge pack kill calves every year.