Predator

A new state law sets Oct. 1 as the starting date for squirrel season statewide, starting this year. It will last five months.

A lack of acorns and other mast on the ground forced the deer to be less careful about where they found their food, and the cold weather ensured they had to eat more often.

Nebraska's mountain lion hunting season could come to a halt if a bill passed by state senators becomes law.

A mountain lion attack on a French bulldog has prompted a Southern California couple to obtain a permit to hunt the big cat down.

Levi Adams of Bowling Green, Ind., used his Rossi .410 shotgun to take his first coyote during a deer hunt with his dad this fall.

A former state senator and unsuccessful candidate for governor in South Dakota has pleaded guilty to a big game violation and lost his hunting privileges for a year.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will host a free public workshop on how people can protect themselves against bears, lions and wolves in the backcountry.

Brain Peddle of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada called in a coyote with an amputated paw and a snare around its neck.

Oregon wildlife officials have removed a cougar trap from a Eugene park even though trail cameras have shown a third cougar in the area. Two other cougars were earlier trapped and killed after recent livestock kills.

New research shows that only 7 percent of mountain lions in the Jackson Hole area are surviving into adulthood.

Add up all the wild hogs in Louisiana, and you get roughly the same number of people who live in Baton Rouge and New Orleans combined.

A coyote was safely caught inside the garage of a state office building in downtown Jackson, Mississippi.

The wolf was shot legally by a hunter in Lawyers Canyon about 70 miles south of Lewiston. It crossed into Idaho by swimming the Snake River on Feb. 24.

500-pound beast shot by Jett Webb in Bertie County, North Carolina.

Louisiana has hired marksmen to shoot feral hogs from helicopters at two wildlife management areas in the southern part of the state.

Opponents of Minnesota's wolf hunt will take their case to state lawmakers this week.

Louisiana amends the 2014-2015 resident-game hunting regulations to allow hunters a three-day possession limit of small game, rabbit, squirrels and quail, but kept the daily limits of eight on squirrels and rabbits and 10 per day on quail.

An Oregon wildlife biologist says a cougar was responsible for killing two goats and some chickens over three consecutive nights at a home near an 80-acre park in south Eugene.

A biologist in New Hampshire says he's getting a lot of calls about coyotes and warns people to keep their pets inside at night.

Authorities say a former state senator is facing a misdemeanor charge after illegally killing a mountain lion that was caught in a bobcat trap.

Wildlife officials have killed a mountain lion that had taken up residence in a Helena neighborhood and killed three housecats.

A man who pleaded guilty to killing a cougar in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in December said he was defending his father, but state wildlife officials say the animal posed no threat and was poached, its heart cooked and some of it eaten by the men.

A beginning coyote hunter and high power rifle competitor goes long-range to bag a wary winter coyote.

Southern California authorities are searching for a mountain lion that killed a family pet in the backyard of a foothills home.

Police in South Windsor are warning residents about coyote sightings and say pets should be protected from possible attacks.

There's nothing like that new rifle smell!

A southwest Missouri prosecutor will not file charges against a man who shot a 4-year-old girl to death while he was target shooting.

Alaska Fish and Game officials killed an Eastern Interior wolf pack last week, and the National Park Service, which had been studying the animals, is none too pleased.

A report says the New Mexico Game Commission chair who recently resigned amid allegations that he was an accessory to an unlawful killing of a cougar set up the hunt.