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By
GEGILE CLARK

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OU’VE PROBABLY heard of
Y the man who could “whip his
weight in wild cats.” Well Jimmy
Dewar, predatory animal hunter for
the B.C. Game Department, tried it
once. I'll tell you about it later on.
First you’ve got to meet Jimmy
himself. Rated as tops among Van-
couver Island’s cougar hunting fra-
ternity, he lives at Extension, near
Nanaimo. When he’s not out on the
trail of a panther, he supervises train-
ing of departmental dogs. Although
some game wardens have their own
dogs, the departmental kennels are at
Extension.

I had heard a lot about Jimmy
Dewar, so I visited him the other day
and spent an interesting few hours
learning all about the big cats that
take an annual toll of a lot of our
deer. Deer that hunters thought to
put in the pot.

Jimmy is of Scottish parentage, a
200-pound six-footer, and a real out-
door man. When you shake hands
with him you get a hint of that
physical strength that made him shake
hands with a cougar a few years ago.

in the Bush

You didn’t get a deer on your last hunting trip?
Part of tt probably went into the stomach of Felis
Concolour, B.C.’s tawny bush assassin who kills
his deer all year round. Here’s what the B.C. Game
Department ts doing about it.

At Extension, near Nanaimo, the B.C. Game Department runs a special training school for
cougar hounds under the supervision of Chief Predator Hunter Jimmy Dewar. Dogs are
trained and sent out to game wardens and predator hunters in the field.

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As he showed me around the
kennels and made me acquainted with
“Scout,” “Blue,” “Red,” “Bounce” and
all the rest of the fellows, I learned
that nearly six hundred and _ fifty
cougar were killed in B.C. last year.
One hundred and eighteen of them
succumbed to the Game Department’s

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Vancouver Island alone.

When you figure that a thousand
cougar were shot in the neighboring
State of Washington in a recent ten-
year period, it doesn’t take much
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