That's where you're wrong. GF&P Tony Lief testified that if you see a mountain lion on your feed ground walking among your livestock, you have to drive back to the house, call GF&P and get their permission before you are allowed to shoot it. There was no question that you are breaking the law if you shoot it before calling them unless it is physically attacking you or your livestock.

If you do shoot a mountain lion that is threatening you or your livestock, they might not arrest you - although they have the power to do so - but they will confiscate the dead mountain lion like they did from Martha Smith at Fairburn and from the farmer at Howard and stash it away in their deep freezes with the dozens of others they have.

When our music teacher ran over the 150# full-grown female ten miles south of our ranch they conficasted the dead lion and left her with the bill to fix her own vehicle. If she could have sold the pelt, it still wouldn't have covered the damage, but it would have helped.