Study: Hazing with dogs can change cougar behavior

After four years of trying to use dogs to make cougars in northeastern Washington more wary of people, researchers have their conclusion. The study, laid out in a paper published last year in the journal Canadian Wildlife Biology and Management, found that cougars that were treed by hounds and shot with paintballs after being approached by humans would flee sooner and farther over multiple trials…

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