Kid Rock Kills Mountain Lion and Ted Nugent Cackles with Joy

Kid Rock and an unidentified man pose with a mountain lion Detroit-born rocker Ted Nugent posted on his Facebook page. (Photo via Facebook)

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Michiganders Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are getting some serious social media play from picture hunting enthusiast Nugent posted on his Facebook page of his “MotorCity boy” with a mountain lion he killed.

The pictures, posted on Jan. 3 and including some other hunter and their quarry, have received about 32,110 likes and has been shared about 2,300 times. The images were posted with the following unedited comment:

“And what a grand conservation New Year it is!” he wrote. “HAIL my MotorCity boy KidRock for saving all those muledeer elk & livestock by whacking this magnificent mountain lion. I can hear the braindead squawkers already with their obscene denial that killing lions is wrong. Its legal its necessary its good its beneficial its a damn riot! And these lovely pigwhackers did same on the TX swine while young Rachael Byrd arrowed this fine Oryx with the Bruce Cull tribe! Praise the mighty life giving renewable protein/sport/trophy/FUN! 2015 be good good year so far!”

Not everyone is rockin’ and rollin’ over the post.

“I always thought that Ted Nugent believes in only hunting what he can eat,” Tracey Matthews posted. “Nobody eats mountain lions. I get the protecting but that’s the circle of life. Mountain lions need to eat to survive, too! They don’t need to be killed! Not happy with Kid Rock!”

Nugent, well known for his pro-hunting, pro-gun and conservative political views, answered his critics in a back-and-forth that included more than 3,800 comments.

The Detroit Free Press says it’s not clear where the puma was killed. In Michigan, mountain lions are classified as endangered species and is protected under state law.

It’s unclear how many mountain lions, or wild cougars as they’re also known, are in Michigan, but the state’s Department of Natural Resources says those in the state likely wandered from established populations in the Dakotas, or may be escaped or released pets.

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During the winter of 2004-2005, the National Park Service conducted road and trail surveys and trail camera surveillance designed to detect mountain lions in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, but found no evidence of their presence.

There are an estimated 30,000 mountain lions in the United States, mostly in western states.

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