Cougar killed in Wenatchee wa. neighborhood-interesting!

[elkhuntress]

Cougar killed in Wenatchee neighborhood

WENATCHEE - After police evacuated homeowners from a Wenatchee neighborhood this morning, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) officials killed a cougar found underneath a house deck.

Rich Beausoleil, a WDFW cougar specialist, said the location of the cougar and the number of people in the area, including children waiting for a school bus, made it too risky to attempt to tranquilize the animal and remove it alive.

Beausoleil estimated the 30-pound female cougar to be six and a half months old and in poor shape, at half normal weight. He speculated that it may have been orphaned.

WDFW Police Officer Danyl Klump received two separate reports of the cougar in Wenatchee early today and called Beausoleil to the scene with a Karelian bear dog to track the cougar. Within ten minutes, the dog found the cougar under a deck in a residential area.

Before the cougar was shot, Wenatchee police officers evacuated nearby residents and closed Franklin and Emerson streets.

Beausoleil said such incidents are rare, since cougars usually avoid people and urban areas.

More information on cougars in Washington in available on WDFW’s website at http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/cougars.html

[Bplott]

30lb cougar ? Killed why? Probably 12 65lb pitbull and dobermen in the same neighbor hood.....lol....don't they own any catch poles there???

[mofo21]

so it was too risky to tranquilize it since people were in the area but they managed to evacuate nearby residents and closed streets down to shoot it? sounds pretty dumb to me.. but o well maybe since this cat was pushed into town they will think a little bit more about opening hunting with hounds up permanently.

[elkhuntress]

so it was too risky to tranquilize it since people were in the area but they managed to evacuate nearby residents and closed streets down to shoot it? sounds pretty dumb to me.. but o well maybe since this cat was pushed into town they will think a little bit more about opening hunting with hounds up permanently.

I hope that they DO think a bit more about how benifical hunting cougars with hounds would be!!!

[Machias]

Actually I bet they BLAME us for this poor orphaned kitten since one of us nasty ol houndsmen probably killed it's mother this winter.

[mofo21]

Actually I bet they BLAME us for this poor orphaned kitten since one of us nasty ol houndsmen probably killed it's mother this winter.

i bet they do to but it was probably the deer hunter that shot the mom while he was out walking around looking for a deer didnt have time to look at it closely to see if it was a mature tom or not or if it had kittens (like he really cares anyways) so he just shot cus how often do you see a lion when your out deer hunting?

[Machias]

Actually I bet they BLAME us for this poor orphaned kitten since one of us nasty ol houndsmen probably killed it's mother this winter.

i bet they do to but it was probably the deer hunter that shot the mom while he was out walking around looking for a deer didnt have time to look at it closely to see if it was a mature tom or not or if it had kittens (like he really cares anyways) so he just shot cus how often do you see a lion when your out deer hunting?

EXACTLY!!

[larry]

Kerilian bear dog???? WTF! Can't fix stupid.

[007pennpal]

That kitten sounds pretty scarry.

[StrawberryMt]

Kerilian bear dog???? WTF! Can't fix stupid.

thats your tax dollars at work

[catch em]

This is my problem with the whole thing, first in the state of washington it is illegal to hunt lion with dogs, not just hounds but any dog unless you draw a permit witch can take years. So if they dont have a permit it should be illegal for those retard to take out this stupid bear dog and i use that term loosly and kill this cat. In my mind let that cat eat every person, house cat and whatever else it wants to eat till they open the season back up. Hopefully it would have eaten greguires grand kids then it would be open!