Cougar enters home through dog door
DEXTER, Ore. -- A cougar entered a Dexter-area home through a dog door last month, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said.
The homeowner called her dog, and the cougar left the house, said Brian Wolfer with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The homeowner wasn't too concerned about the late October incident and planned to lock the pet door when not in use, Wolfer said.
However, Wolfer called it "kind of concerning" that a cougar would enter a home that way. He advised homeowners to lock doors and keep pet food secure, even inside the house.
Ed Thompson, who lives in the area, said the incident illustrates the conflict between rural Lane County residents and the cougar population.
"I'm afraid that many people don't understand the breadth of the cougar problem right in Lane County's backyards," Thompson said. "In the Dexter/Pleasant Hill area alone there have been well more than a dozen livestock killings including sheep (two of which were ours), goats and an alpaca just this year."
Time to cull the deer population. My neighbor in Eugene almost died after striking a deer with his sports car last month. Month before, my mother's neighbor had to have the police shoot a cougar in her back yard. Sad that the deers' predator had to be put down. What's with all the fu$$ in getting a doe tag for hunting? Let's turn menace into menu! Venison for all! Rather than charging hunters (ie.putting money in the bureaucrats pockets), lets put bountie$ on the deers' heads. This worked out quite well in NZ. Bounties on does (deer and rabbit) were the sure fire solution.
NZ stomachs full of rabbit and venison...with deer and rabbit fur slippers and bomber hats to stay warm in JULY & AUGUST!!!
AIMA, if the cougar population outruns the deer population, then cougar meat tastes really good. It really is delicious...because they eat A LOT of fresh SASHIMI venison w/ other internal oregons as an appetizer. Bona petite! I want a cougar fur bomber hat!!!
A Russian snow leopards pelt is worth about 80 grand. Cougar pelts gotta' be worth its weight in gold 'bout now. That spiny fur messages my feet so well in my pajama slippers..
Let's be like the RUSKIES and save on fuel expenses with Russian Cougar Trapper Caps....and cougar loin tenderloin and duck egg for breakfast.
Turn menace into menu is my motto. How do you think parts of ASIA controlled the locusts. I have eaten those little sauteed/pickled bugs. they are not bad...but cougar tastes 10X better.