I have a real problem with the way things are handled out here in the Wild, Wild West with regard to wildlife that wander into populated areas. Let’s not forget that WE are the ones who intruded on THEIR environment because it’s so beautiful and wonderful and we just had to be/live/visit there. If the animals — and I’m speaking specifically about mountain lions and bears — wander into your yard and kill your cat, well then, I guess your cat shouldn’t have been left outside. If you live in bear country and are stupid enough to leave your doors and windows wide open, then you’re just asking for company.

What set me off, you ask? Well, over the last week I’ve read two different articles on 9News.com that have really angered me. The first was about three bears who wandered through open doors and windows and had themselves a little look-see inside a couple of houses. The Division of Wildlife sedated the bears and took them about 20 miles away and let them go. That’s all good and well, but then they said if the bears come back they will be killed as per Colorado law for being “nuisance” animals. I ask you, who’s being the nuisance, the bears or the humans!

I saw the second article today wherein it was reported that Division of Wildlife officials have killed two mountain lions this week that strayed into Durango city limits in southwestern Colorado. Yeah, they were two young female lions. One of them was found eating a cat behind a shed and the other one was killed because some guy happened to see it behind his house. Oh no! You live in the mountains of Colorado and you call the damn Division of Wildlife because there’s a mountain lion behind your house?! What the hell did you expect when you moved there??? Asshats!

It’s just not right. No animal should be killed unless it attacks someone when it’s living in its own natural habitat which PEOPLE have invaded! If idiots don’t want mountain lions and bears around, then they should move down here to the plains! All we’ve got are snakes, and raccoons, and deer, and antelope, and bunnies, and foxes, and coyotes — oh wait, they would probably want to kill all of them, too.