Living with Lions in Washington State | S1E03 | On the Hunt with Janis Putelis

[Skyvalhunter]

This video is all fine and dandy when dealing with cougars, people and their pets or live stock. Problem is you still have cougars wiping out the deer and elk population. The court population needs to be thinned out not training them to live with people.

[MtnMuley]

Definitely a healthy cat.

I honestly believe DFW has no way to get counts on bears/lions with any accuracy.

[idaho guy]

Idaho isn't lacking in lions, even with the wolves, hounds and everyone shooting every predator they come across,  I still come across more lions in Idaho.   More game, more lions..

Up in the NE corner I'm noticing its taking more miles to cut a lion track after first few snows, less deer, less lions. 

There's still a ton of lions, but the pop of lions seems to get denser the closer you get to people, farms and deer.  Get way back, and it's getting hard to find one!

 

My theory on Idaho lions in the panhandle is we would have very few if we weren’t getting the overflow from Washington and some from Montana. Idaho has gone overboard on killing lions  in my opinion , but we share a border with a lion factory ha ha. Better predator and game management in Idaho ,so we have more elk and deer, and they just keep coming over to their demise lol. As an Idaho hound guy I guess I should be happy Washington doesn’t effectively manage lions but it still bothers me to see the mismanagement.

[Skyvalhunter]

I too am concerned with the state line jumping cougars from Idaho and Oregon then the in Canada. We just allows too many of these out of state cougars that come in and kill what little deer we have left. Something has to be done to stop this