These were on the wet side. Guess it will only count in King County though.
County workers report seeing cougar near Kelso park
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Staff members of the Cowlitz County Public Works Department said they spotted a cougar in the western end of Tam O'Shanter Park in Kelso just before noon Wednesday, according to a dispatch report.
The workers said the saw the cougar heading northbound near the parking lot of the Red Lion Hotel.
Fish and Wildlife officials were notified, but they were unavailable for comment Thursday.
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By Tom Paulu / The Daily News The Daily News Online | Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:10 pm | (10) Comments
Feed the deer and raccoons, and you might indirectly be feeding a cougar.
That's the lesson to be learned from recent encounters at a Kelso apartment complex.
Don Throgmorton, the unofficial caretaker at 1920 Minor Road, about a half-mile north of where Mount Brynion Road crosses Interstate 5, said he's seen a cougar several times there in recent weeks. One day it was about 10 feet away, he said.
"It was growling and hissing at me."
A neighbor saw the big cat Wednesday night, Throgmorton said Thursday.
"It's getting very spooky out here," he said. "I'm afraid some of these kids are going to try to approach it and it's going to try to kill them."
Throgmorton likes to feed the deer and raccoons at the complex, which is in a wooded area east of I-5.
Attracting deer and raccoons likely attracted a cougar, said Sgt. Ted Holden of the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"We convinced him to not feed wildlife like that," Holden said. "That would draw a cougar in. It's likely just a cat hanging out in the area because they've got such a concentration of deer and raccoons."
Throgmorton said he hasn't seen his favorite deer recently. "I have an idea the mountain lion may have killed it."
WDFW is providing Throgmorton with pamphlets about how to avoid conflicts with cougars to distribute to apartment residents.
"He's going to be our eyes and ears down there," Holden said.
WDFW would attempt to capture the cougar if it exhibited abnormal behavior, such as not running away from people or appearing in broad daylight, Holden said. The agency also removes cougars if an officer can document that the cat killed a pet or livestock.
In Corvallis on Wednesday, Oregon wildlife officials killed a cougar that had injured a small dog at one house and may have killed a pet cat at another, and used a backyard deck as cover.
Holden said the WDFW averages a couple of cougar siting reports a month in Cowlitz County.
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