Cougar stalks acreage southwest of Calgary twice in a day, kills cat
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A warning from a concerned parent after multiple frighteningly close encounters with a cougar on an acreage just southwest of the city on Tuesday.
A warning from a concerned parent after multiple frighteningly close encounters with a cougar on an acreage just southwest of the city on Tuesday.
Only a glass door separated Jessica Low and her young daughter from a cougar that had just killed one of their barn cats.
Low says the wildcat, believed to be less than two years old, hissed and seethed, looking directly at the child who only moments before sat down in sight of the door to have her lunch.
"I run over and this cougar is holding our cat ... in its mouth at the window," Low said.
"It dropped the cat and turned back to the window and started baring its teeth and pawing at the window.
"I was trying to block (my daughter) and scare it away. (I was) banging on the window and it just was not leaving, staring us down.
"Eventually, it picked the cat back up, walked a few feet over to our garden and dropped it there and still sat there for a minute or two and then it slowly walked off."
