Texas Fauna Project

Mountain Lion

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Lynn Cuny is the founder and president of Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, a non-profit in the San Antonio area that provides rescue, rehabilitation, and release to orphaned, injured or displaced wildlife, including mountain lions. Here she puzzles over West Texas landowners' resistance to enacting game status for cougars, and for their general animosity towards the predator. She is unsure why these attitudes have not softened, even as stock ownership has declined and compensation has been offered to ranchers for any losses.