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LETTER: Cougar killed in Vernon

Reader voices displeasure after conservation officers put down cougar in Vernon
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I am appalled to read that another cougar has been killed by the conservation officers because it killed someone’s goats.

We continue to build higher and higher into the forest and mountains taking over their habitat, and they are only hunting for food.

If you choose to live in their habitat you have to expect that these things are going to happen and keep your animals secured.

We see the same complaints about bears and deer but we have moved into their home and hunting grounds.

These people are called conservation officers, but they aren’t conserving these beautiful animals, they continue to kill them.

I don’t understand why they cannot be relocated.

D. Chambers