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Friday, September 4, 2009

Cats / City Cougars in the City

Posted by Chicago Fan on Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM

If there really is a cougar in Discovery Park, shouldn't the neighborhood and the Seattle PD begin a process of meetings and discussions about procedures and protocols to ensure that it doesn't meet the same fate as a recent feline visitor to Chicago? You can close the park, but the cougar doesn't know it has to stay there, and it may end up on the nearby streets.

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The best part about that Chicago article is this

The 45-year-old went out in his back yard and saw a cougar attempting to jump from his neighbor's fence to his. He knew it was a cougar because he had seen it on the Discovery Channel, he said.

Posted by apres_moi on September 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM

Can we feed Ashton Kutcher to it? Please?

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on September 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM

Is this a roundabout way of trying to relate to the Seattlecentric nature of this website?

"Seattle is having problems with a cougar. So did Chicago. We're twinsies now!"

Posted by Baconcat on September 4, 2009 at 10:29 AM

Chicago Fan: We have our own unfortunate history killing wild animals because they do not follow police procedures. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…. Yes, it is an excellent idea for the police to make a plan on how to deal with the cougar without stunning or shooting it to death when it inevitably fails to comply with their request for it to put its hands behind its back.

Posted by ScreenName on September 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM

Eh, cougars. A regular part of life around these parts. It only makes the news when they eat somebody.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on September 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM

"a process of meetings and discussions about procedures and protocols"?

yeah, that's smarter than just GIVING ALL THE MAGNOLIA PO TRANQ GUNS.

or putting every animal control officer in King Co into Magnolia and finding the fucker. its a cat - it's asleep 80% of the time.

Posted by Max Solomon on September 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM

@4:

Yes, it is an excellent idea for the police to make a plan on how to deal with the cougar without stunning or shooting it to death when it inevitably fails to comply with their request for it to put its hands behind its back.

The imagery, it kills.

Posted by Baconcat on September 4, 2009 at 10:46 AM

@4 Maybe they'll try slamming it into a wall.

Posted by pragmatic on September 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM

Someone put in a call to Ashton Kutcher.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on September 4, 2009 at 10:56 AM

Damn cat better not refuse to produce ID.

Posted by Joe M on September 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM

Maybe they can catch it unawares while it's having a hot flash.

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on September 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Q: How do you keep a cougar out of your yard?
A: Put up goalposts.

Posted by DOUG.

on September 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Anyone have an idea of how the hell the cougar got to discovery park? Its surrounded by the city and puget sound.

Posted by matt! on September 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM

A cougar prowling the city--all I can picture is Dina Martina creeping about.

Posted by avatar on September 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM

Discovery Park is pretty big, shouldn't the cougars be there? I say if you go into a forest and are attacked by a wild animal it's fair. I don't understand why we have to kill anything that poses any kind of threat at all. How about we just be smart and we won't have to destroy something that really has way more right to be there than we do.

Posted by Carollani

on September 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM

Maybe we need to call the Huskies out.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on September 4, 2009 at 11:27 AM

@13: same way the bear got there - down the train tracks.

Posted by Max Solomon on September 4, 2009 at 11:27 AM

PS, folks, it is in Discovery park -- however it is also in the streets next to DP, like the street next to my house where I saw it going from the Heron gully back TO discovery park.

fucker can jump, it went right over the iron fence with has to be 8 or 9 feet high.

we are keeping our pets in for the duration.

Posted by Womyn2me $http://http:\\www.shelleyandlaura.com$ on September 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM

Why can't we just let it be? At least until it eats a few of the bums that camp in Discovery Park...

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on September 4, 2009 at 12:11 PM

I would recommend that the SPD use the same technologies that they used to track down the 2nd gunman last weekend at North Seattle Community College. Either that or resort to the technologies used by the people on History Channel's Monsterquest - a heat sensing camera attached to a model helicopter is all they need. Case closed.

Posted by PTrig on September 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM