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Title: Washington Bill Establishes Pilot Cougar Hunt with Dogs
Post by: jackelope on February 04, 2020, 12:35:18 PM

https://www.sportsmensalliance.org/news/washington-bill-would-establish-a-pilot-cougar-hunt-with-dogs/

Title: Re: Washington Bill Establishes Pilot Cougar Hunt with Dogs
Post by: Bango skank on February 04, 2020, 01:22:07 PM

We really need this to happen.

Title: Re: Washington Bill Establishes Pilot Cougar Hunt with Dogs
Post by: mburrows on February 04, 2020, 01:40:43 PM

Man this would be so awesome. Money generator and money saver all at once. Control which cats are removed from the population more effectively. Seems like a no brainer!

Title: Re: Washington Bill Establishes Pilot Cougar Hunt with Dogs
Post by: Wsucoug on February 04, 2020, 02:16:26 PM

How does it get around the initiative? Is it because it is a ”wdfw study”?

Title: Re: Washington Bill Establishes Pilot Cougar Hunt with Dogs
Post by: Special T on February 04, 2020, 02:25:37 PM

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5100&Year=2019&Initiative=false

It is three days until policy cut-off and VanDeWege is the king of the animal-rights guys, so he is not going to hear the bill in the next three days.  Or so I've heard...

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Title: Re: Washington Bill Establishes Pilot Cougar Hunt with Dogs
Post by: npaull on February 04, 2020, 03:20:13 PM

That sucks to hear, Special T. This bill would be so great to get passed. Hopefully a few more suburban dogs get killed by cougars and attitudes towards them start to change...

Title: Re: Washington Bill Establishes Pilot Cougar Hunt with Dogs
Post by: Special T on February 04, 2020, 03:40:58 PM

We will see how it pans out. Hopefully some one can twist some arms, but with all the other big issues hitting the deadline I'm curious how many will spend the political capitol to make it happen.

I would love to see it happen but Im kind of doubtful.