Joe Rogan

Because what I had read on a forum, so it has to be correct, because those guys are all experts.

I had read that an equal number of mountain lions had been killed with depredation tags by experts with dogs to bring them in than if they had given tags out.

So if they had given tags out and let people mountain lion hunt, you would have the exact same amount of mountain lions that they had to kill.

And instead of that, you would have revenue.

All right.

California has not yet published a full 2025 total, but the best available data as of July 2025 shows at least 167 mountain lions reported taken under depredation permits in 2020 and 166 in 2020.

in 2022 with annual totals of over a hundred in recent years.

So every year they have to kill at least a hundred mountain lions.

Probably quite a bit more.

It looks like 67 more, 66 more.

Yeah, well, the thing is, they're doing nothing to curb the population.

And the thing is, people go, oh, it's okay, let nature do its thing.

No, it doesn't do its thing.

It kills your dog, okay?

One of the things they found out in San Francisco, in the Bay Area, was when they do shoot these mountain lions, they've done an analysis of their diet.

It's 50% dogs and cats.

Wow.

50% of their diet is eating people's pets.

So they're hunting people's pets.

That means you are, if you're a dog lover...