Cougar Sighting at Wareabouts

On Friday of the May long weekend the dogs were getting pretty excited about something behind the house. When we went to take a look, Peter saw a cougar. After it ran off we investigated and found a deer carcass under a spruce tree not far from the house.

The cat had partially covered it with leaves and duff which is typical cougar behaviour. This is what it was probably doing when the dogs disturbed it.

We set up the game camera and left making sure the dogs and cats were in the house. That evening the BIG cat came back and checked out the camera (see the portion of his face on the left) but then the batteries died.

Not knowing that the batteries had failed we did not check the camera until Sunday morning. A recharge of the batteries and the camera was back up Sunday evening even though most of the deer had been eaten. The cat came back.


We've seen cougars here before but this is the first time we've been able to get a picture.
Wareabouts, southwest of Millarville, is in the middle of cougar country. We take precautions but this is their territory and we're here only in sufferance.