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.
Cougars in the City
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The best part about that Chicago article is this
Can we feed Ashton Kutcher to it? Please?
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!”
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.
Eh, cougars. A regular part of life around these parts. It only makes the news when they eat somebody.
“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.
@4:
The imagery, it kills.
@4 Maybe they’ll try slamming it into a wall.
Someone put in a call to Ashton Kutcher.
Damn cat better not refuse to produce ID.
Maybe they can catch it unawares while it’s having a hot flash.
Q: How do you keep a cougar out of your yard?
A: Put up goalposts.
Anyone have an idea of how the hell the cougar got to discovery park? Its surrounded by the city and puget sound.
A cougar prowling the city–all I can picture is Dina Martina creeping about.
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.
Maybe we need to call the Huskies out.
@13: same way the bear got there – down the train tracks.
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.
Why can’t we just let it be? At least until it eats a few of the bums that camp in Discovery Park…
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.
CF – see 18
It’s already been reported sighted in the neighborhood.
This is all just an elaborate attempt to promote Courtney Cox’s new TV comedy, “Cougar Town”.
Because if there’s one thing Seattle needs to do, it’s address another problem by having a bunch of meetings that accomplish nothing useful.