Vancouver Sun reports:

A mother armed only with a rag scared off a cougar that gashed her seven-year-old son as he was tobogganing on New Year’s Eve, in the second cougar attack on a B.C. child in a week.

The northern B.C. incident came just days before a cougar attacked an 11-year-old boy in Boston Bar on Saturday. In that case, the boy escaped unharmed when his dog intervened to save him.

It’s nothing else than this loyalty, which is in evidence everywhere one looks, that binds a large section of humanity to the domesticated descendant of wolves—wagging tail, moist nose, humid mouth.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

9 replies on “Cougars Attack Boys During the Holidays”

  3. I got attacked by several lonely cougars during the holiday season at bars. I think once their children grow up they get lonely and go on the prowl. The sad part of this story is that the bar in Boston let a boy and his dog inside. Don’t they know there are dangerous cougars in there?

  4. Maybe this is an unfortunate sign of the times, but for a moment there I couldn’t help but think that some tween boys unintentionally stumbled into into a bar in Boston and were aggressively hit on by post-menopausal women.

    (Or maybe it’s that I know some mothers now pushing sixty who have a history of doing crap like that.)

    Tags: “Boston”, “Bar”, “Cougar”, “Attack”, “Boy”, “Dog”, “Mother”, “Rag”

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