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Cougars dying from bird flu
« on: December 20, 2024, 08:28:40 AM »
Two cougars have been confirmed to have died from avian influenza.  No telling how many in the mountains are dying.
https://www.myclallamcounty.com/2024/12/20/two-cougars-on-olympic-peninsula-die-from-bird-flu/

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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2024, 08:33:16 AM »
Sweet!    Now if Parvo would take out a couple hundred wolves we'd get some where

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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2024, 08:47:40 AM »
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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2024, 08:53:45 AM »
Or another reason (excuse) for the Commission to further reduce take or even close season all together under their any mortality rule...
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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2024, 08:53:53 AM »
If you die in a car accident but have covid at the time, did you die from Covid or the car accident?   Are the cats starving because there are no prey animals left due to their lousy predator management and in their weakened state caught the flu, or did having the flu cause them to starve to death.   I wonder which makes a more exciting headline

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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2024, 08:58:24 AM »
Or another reason (excuse) for the Commission to further reduce take or even close season all together under their any mortality rule...

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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2024, 10:33:11 AM »
If you die in a car accident but have covid at the time, did you die from Covid or the car accident?   Are the cats starving because there are no prey animals left due to their lousy predator management and in their weakened state caught the flu, or did having the flu cause them to starve to death.   I wonder which makes a more exciting headline
this is probably the most realistic scenario, but they’d never admit that.

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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2024, 10:46:12 AM »
If you die in a car accident but have covid at the time, did you die from Covid or the car accident?   Are the cats starving because there are no prey animals left due to their lousy predator management and in their weakened state caught the flu, or did having the flu cause them to starve to death.   I wonder which makes a more exciting headline
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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2024, 11:19:08 AM »
Probably overpopulation.  So many dam cats in this state they can’t partake in social distancing.   :dunno:

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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2024, 11:42:55 AM »
If you die in a car accident but have covid at the time, did you die from Covid or the car accident?   Are the cats starving because there are no prey animals left due to their lousy predator management and in their weakened state caught the flu, or did having the flu cause them to starve to death.   I wonder which makes a more exciting headline
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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2024, 11:57:06 AM »
Sweet!    Now if Parvo would take out a couple hundred wolves we'd get some where

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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2024, 12:33:11 PM »
Or another reason (excuse) for the Commission to further reduce take or even close season all together under their any mortality rule...
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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2024, 01:43:40 PM »
If you die in a car accident but have covid at the time, did you die from Covid or the car accident?   Are the cats starving because there are no prey animals left due to their lousy predator management and in their weakened state caught the flu, or did having the flu cause them to starve to death.   I wonder which makes a more exciting headline

If you died in this state in a car accident and tested positive for covid with a test that was designed to give false positives after numerous searches, you were classified as a covid death. I suspect since bird flu is the new covid scare that any dead cougar that is tested with a questionable test would be classified as dying from bird flu.

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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2024, 03:08:36 PM »
I don’t know. There were massive die offs of sea lions and elephant seals in South America due to avian influenza and it’s now definitely panzootic. Seems to be pretty rough on humans when they get it too but rare. Might be a little early to be celebrating a disease that can jump species and be transported so easily.

https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/catastrophic-mortality-elephant-seals-argentina-identified-outbreak-avian-influenza
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Re: Cougars dying from bird flu
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2024, 03:39:39 PM »
I don’t know. There were massive die offs of sea lions and elephant seals in South America due to avian influenza and it’s now definitely panzootic. Seems to be pretty rough on humans when they get it too but rare. Might be a little early to be celebrating a disease that can jump species and be transported so easily.

https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/catastrophic-mortality-elephant-seals-argentina-identified-outbreak-avian-influenza

Maybe this is the answer to our Sea Lion and Seal problem around here? The steelhead and salmon sure would appreciate it.
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