RIFLE, Colo. — Wildlife officials have trapped and killed five mountain lions near a Colorado town after residents reported aggressive behavior by the predators.
The Rifle Citizen Telegram reports Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials trapped and killed the mountain lions last month in the Glenwood Springs area.
Area wildlife manager Perry Will says four of the animals were believed to be a mother and her grown kittens.
Video footage from a west Glenwood Springs residence showed the four mountain lions stalking the neighborhood.
Will says each of the lions killed last month were believed to be at least a year old and over 80 pounds.
Will says euthanizing the cats is often the only option.
He says officials are not actively targeting anymore lions at this time.
Exposing the Big Game 
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Isn’t this awful? The article I had read was insensitive enough to say that the town ‘rid’ itself of 5 mountain lions. And it was from so-called progressive Colorado –
I would have posted a link but there were too many advertisements. But here it is:
https://www.vaildaily.com/news/state-wildlife-officials-rid-glenwood-springs-of-5-mountain-lions/
Aggressive predators? Yes, that’s because they are mountain lions!! That’s how they survive. I seem to remember seeing a video of these mountain lions a while back.
Then RELOCATE them! How goddamn lazy are you to just mercilessly slaughter them?!
Humans have encroached on THEIR home. And your solution is to kill them?
Idiots. Karma is your bitch.
Oh my goodness…and here they are, Colorado officials, defending their actions *eyeroll*:
https://www.aspentimes.com/news/local/wildlife-officials-defend-lion-management-practices/
I guess their critics hurt their feelings.
I could see possibly one, but five???? It just smacks of not caring at all.
BTW, did anyone see this? The bear was euthanized before the autopsy results came in of course, ‘in the interest of public safety’, but I hope that ‘in the interest of public safety’, the meth cooking labs are cleaned up out of the woods too.
http://www.wistv.com/2019/02/05/man-dies-meth-overdose-before-bear-eats-him-autopsy-says/