Cougar jumps in boat !

Thomas Linton said:
Sick, starving and looking for fish.
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Yeah I always feel really bad when they kill the animal instead of shooting it with a tranquilizer dart and relocating it but in this case it sounded like the best thing all round.
 
"I didn't know what supposed to do when a cougar tries to get in your boat." I agree with him. I wouldn't had a clue either. In this case the animal needed to be put down but think sometimes the authorities are too fast with that sorta thing.
 
There's not much else to be done when a predator either loses it's fear of humans, or is so desperate that it's hunger overcomes it's natural fear.

Still, I wish there was a video of the guy jumping out of the boat. :D
 
About 10yrs ago we tracked a cougar that was in a local National Park(not supposed to be in Southern Ontario at all). At one point, I realized that we(myself and 2 wardens) were all searching for sign individually... not good. Stooping down with our backs to the trees.... hello Kitty! Anyway, I suggested we stick together. We found tracks later that day then had to mark trail and end for the night. The next morning someone had shot it in their back acreage. Not more than 2kms from where we ended, the night before. It would have been better to tranq and relocate but folks get nervous when a large predator turns up in an area were they aren't supposed to exist in the first place.
 
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