Editor:
Re: “Bold cougar takes cat from back porch,” Coast Reporter, Aug. 5.
It’s 2016 and cats are still maligned. Citizens live in fear of cougars and trigger-happy “destruction” officers want to hunt them down to kill them. Coyotes kill and eat a lot more pets than cougars do. Yet, they rarely make the headline. And if there’s a blurb about a coyote snatching a dog, it is buried at the back of the paper.
You’d think Coast Reporter would have better things to put on the cover than a hunt for a cougar. You never hear the Dean Millers of the world say what they will do about the coyote problem. Sadly, I’ve lost cats to coyotes. I doubt the conservation officer would have bothered showing up to find the coyotes. I drove to Sunnycrest Mall in the evening last week and saw a coyote walking in the parking lot. This week, two “teenage” bears visited near my house and a few days later, a four-point buck helped himself to grass next to my car.
If people are so afraid of nature, they should move to Vancouver. And please, try to refrain from having those beautiful big cats killed.
Michael Bellamy, Gibsons
