Disgusting find in the Okanagan

[campking]

Saw this this morning, I knew this type of thing happened but really? As far as I am concerned there is no penalty strong enough for whoever has done this!
"A North Okanagan woman says she came across approximately 80 bear paws dumped on a road and in a culvert above Shuswap Lake on Sunday."

[Blacktail1]

So a taxidermist or hide flesher picked a bad spot to dump skinned out paws?

[campking]

Never thought of that as a possibility

[tyler-brown]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Salmon...-North-Shuswap

Apparently there was Cub paws. Doubtful on it being a taxidermist at that point

[kolofardos]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Salmon...-North-Shuswap

Apparently there was Cub paws. Doubtful on it being a taxidermist at that point

How is it apparent that there are cub paws?

[Downtown]

How is it apparent that there are cub paws?

If you seen enough skinned our Bear Paws, you would instantly recognize a Bear Cup Paw.

I am always leery of reports with a proper date like Day-Month-Year.

If this happened recently, no doubt the COs will be hard on the Culprits Trail by now. Support them with all you know. This reeks of industrial scale Poaching and somebody got cold Feet.

Cheers

[kolofardos]

If you seen enough skinned our Bear Paws, you would instantly recognize a Bear Cup Paw.

I am always leery of reports with a proper date like Day-Month-Year.

If this happened recently, no doubt the COs will be hard on the Culprits Trail by now. Support them with all you know. This reeks of industrial scale Poaching and somebody got cold Feet.

Cheers

I get that. What I'm asking is how has it been determined that there are cub paws? Have you seen the paws in question? Has a CO seen them and determined they were from a cub? Or is it speculation from the individual that discovered them, and sensationalization from the media?

[Downtown]

I get that. What I'm asking is how has it been determined that there are cub paws? Have you seen the paws in question? Has a CO seen them and determined they were from a cub? Or is it speculation from the individual that discovered them, and sensationalization from the media?

I go by what the OP wrote for everybody to read. Unless you know more we are in the same Boat

Cheers

[Walking Buffalo]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Salmon...-North-Shuswap

Apparently there was Cub paws. Doubtful on it being a taxidermist at that point

Did you not look at the video you linked?

I don't see any cub paws?
Some smaller feet which are Not cubs, one small foot which appears to not be from a bear.
Even if there are cub feet, that does not mean they were in possession illegally.
I have a 3 month old bear cub hide. Obtained completely within the laws.

Very small chance this is from poachers.
Fresh feet are $$$.

I would suspect a taxidermist dumped these bear parts.
This person needs a good slap, fine, and license suspension.

[walks with deer]

Did you not look at the video you linked?

I don't see any cub paws?
Some smaller feet which are Not cubs, one small foot which appears to not be from a bear.
Even if there are cub feet, that does not mean they were in possession illegally.
I have a 3 month old bear cub hide. Obtained completely within the laws.

Very small chance this is from poachers.
Fresh feet are $$$.

I would suspect a taxidermist dumped these bear parts.
This person needs a good slap, fine, and license suspension.

Why a fine or liscense suspension?