The rant about the cougar problem brought back some memories.
A number of years ago I had a tethered goat killed by a cougar.
I called the game warden at the time and was given the run around, so I told him, “That’s all right, I’ll take care of it myself.”
He asked me to check and see if it had been back that evening.
I did, it had and I called him.
Before I got home from the graveyard shift the next morning, he had come out with a hunter and dogs, treed and killed it.
He told me later that that was the first official case of a cougar killing a tethered animal in the state.
The lesson here is the threat of the public stepping in and doing their job for them will often spur officials into action.
They hate “loss of face.”
Allen S. Brannin,
Port Angeles