Cougar Killed In Louisiana

Another report of a not-so-mysterious cat being shot surfaced over the weekend. The dispatching of out-of-place felids appears to be epidemic across the USA in the last couple of weeks. Here is another story.

State wildlife agents said they had no choice but to kill a cougar in a Bossier City neighborhood after a tranquilizer dart didn’t work fast enough, reported KTBS of Shreveport, Louisiana.

The cougar was spotted in a tree Sunday afternoon, November 30, 2008, on Whittington Street. Police cordoned off a one-block area around the location and kept residents in their homes as a precaution in the event the cougar came out of the tree, then called in wildlife agents.

Two tranquilizer darts fired from a rifle sent the animal falling to the ground. But it was still aggressive, so a wildlife biologist told police to shoot it to keep it from running off into the neighborhood.

“Unfortunately when we darted it, the cat made moves that it was going to come down the tree and come out into the neighborhood and we thought it was a public risk, so we had Bossier P.D. take it out,” said Wildlife and Fisheries agent Steve Hebert.

Charles Colgin first spotted the cougar in the tree and called police. He supported what agents did.

“I have a 6-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter and I was very concerned. I’m glad it was taken care of; I’d rather see him dead than one of my children dead,” he said.

Susan and Mike Hilburn had hoped agents could save the cougar and return it to the wild.

Wildlife agents are trying to determine where the cat had been before he got into the neighborhood.

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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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