I've seen on YouTube birds attack dogs that size. Why would you live in the country and not protect your animals from the wildlife you live near? Come on people my tax money is better spent on more important problems. My God, there is a 10 year old missing in Colorado that needs all our help.

Me I would get a gun shoot the cougar take it down to the wildlife office and tell them to confirm it being a cougar

Sgt. Jennifer Maurstad.

Due to budget cuts and limited staffing, it needs proof there’s a sighting.

Typical government whore. Take the paycheck but don't put out the effort, just the excuses.

What a ridiculous article. It should really be about how big banks and corporations are killing the middle and lower classes of this country.

People, people, people everywhere,
what the heck to you think the animals are going to do?
and when they are nearly gone--what do you think people are going to do?
This nation imports 7-8 MILLION 2 leggeds annually: we reached our caring capacity...decades ago...where there is water, and food that also isn't controlled...
So blaming animals is the last thing you should be doing...

Hey that's kinda cool, I mean the big moutain lions are part of nature,the nature you guys claim you want to embrace and protect...well nature has come to your neighbor and just wants to say hi and give you a big hug!

The best part is went the pets run out they will start on the small people and then the joggers and those road hog bikers with thier flashy lights should draw the cats attention, what a work out you'll get when that puma pounces on you and you peddle you self silly wishing you were armed and surrounded by a big gas guzzling SUV!

Don't fight it just embrace nature and enjoy being the prey!

Easy fix. Pick up your balls and shoot the cat. You can believe it that if it killed one of my pets I would end it. This is how being the predator at the top of the food chain works.

We live in Oklahoma City metro area and we also have the same issue with cougars and get the same response from wildlife personnel. We even have photographic evidence of the cougar in one of our friends yards and no response from wildlife personnel because it would take too much effort from them to track these animals over this large area. We also have a many deer and wildlife in this area because we life in an outlying area of the metro where there are acreage type neighborhoods. What surprises me more than anything, is that people still leave their pets outside for cougars and the bobcats to get at. As many have said pets are our responsibility as we have adopted them and should protect them from these predators. It is not the cougars fault that they are going on natural instinct to hunt for food. The cat or dog really has not defense to protect themselves from a cougar, mountain lion or bobcat or any other large predator in the wild. It sickens me to think that people are so cruel to be so thoughtless to care so little about another life. This also puts our children at risk because when we leave our pets outside it tempts the large cat into the neighborhood where children are playing. Each time I have sighted the cougar in our area it has been during daylight hours when children would and have been outside, it was not during the nighttime.

I do not leave our dog outside unattended and we make sure that we have protection close at hand in case a cougar does find its way into our yard and attacks him. For the cats they are NEVER allowed outside. This thought that cats like to be outside, that is just a misconception because they have been allowed to be outside. Sometimes my heart goes out to the neighborhood cats because they spend time on hour patio curled up looking in our door at our cats and it looks like they wish they could come in. Our animals are treated as part of our family and care for accordingly. I just want to take the other cats in and give them the protection they deserve....

As a provider regardless of who or what it is it is our responsibility to take care of them and watch out for them. If we do not wish to do that then find someone who will do it and not allow them to become food for a predator.

Just let one of the residents shoot one of these mountain lions and see how quickly the wildlife people show up. I'm not advocating taking up arms against the lions in Seattle, but this wouldn't happen but once in some neighborhoods.

You can thank all the animal rights activist for banning cougar hunts with dogs. Can't say I feel sorry for anyone out west losing pets, livestock or whatever. Hunting keeps things in balance. Maybe the voters will think twice the next time an anti-hunting bill is put to vote. And I'm sure Wildlife Officials have the time to check alleged cougar attacks on pets. They're just letting nature take its course.

Perhaps it was one of the "wolves" that got away... Losing one pet to a questionable predator than another pet only weeks after to another questionable predator. Don't blame the predator. Watch over your pets, flocks and family. Killing "predators" in any one area isn't the answer. Blaming one "predator" specie isn't fair. Think of what can be done without "killing".

I read through some of the comments and it seems like some people are so narrow minded. This issue has little to nothing to do with politics except for the point that people need to stop blasting other people, get off their butts and do something about what they are complaining about now, not just in a pres election year but every year. At least use the PC to type letters to your Congresspeople now-strike while the iron is hot. I don't understand how so many people can answer every question with "Romnidiot would do even worse" or "spoken like a Barackmoron on welfare".

Yes, the woman from NY went on too long but I never saw a single political agenda pushed. All she did was let people know it is critical that we get out there and vote, that one person can make a difference. So, on something like this, who knows WTF is the best route here, or on the gray wolf situation, Mustang situation but whatever you think it is, make sure you do your part. Don't bit&^ on a message board about this agency or that-did you vote? And if you did vote, did you even bother doing research on who you planned on voting for? Did you ever think of standing up somewhere and speak during public sessions where you live (I think she was trying to show how it works, albeit long--winded). etc.If not, maybe STFU about anything government does.

And attacking people on a message board is not the way. It's shi**$, pure and simple. And now I will go and practice what I preach. SOme candiates are speaking at a senior center tomorrow and I am going to learn what they have done for us lately, and call them out if they did crap, as I suspect. And since this one candidate I know has done nothing for this area and only squeaked by, maybe, just maybe, a few minds can be changed.

You don't want the Big Kitty,eating your little kitties, and poodles/doggies?

KEEP THEM INDOORS IT'S THAT SIMPLE! Cougars don't care about your pets.It's YOUR JOB to protect them!

If you have to walk your dog or it needs to go out for a dump? A club or a pistol is most suitable.

JUST WATCH THEM, KEEP THEM INDOORS,and they won't die!

A well placed heart shot (not the head) with a 22-250 will solve the problem.....guarantee you if one comes on my property it's owned...wonder how much it costs now to have a cougar stuffed now-a-days?

DO YOUR JOB game wardens...or WE will!

P.S. also if you had a REAL dog like a german sheppard.... problem solved :)

I don't live in the area, but it's probably about time for a healthy cougar hunt if they have invaded residential areas where children or even adults could be harmed or worse.

When joggers turn up missing it will be time to take action.

They will do something about it when it is to late and they have gotten a child. ... It will happen.

That stupid fat woman don't takin care of her dog and blame the cougar ? why dont blame herself ?

Why blame the cougars? Check out the Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants.

I am soory about your loss...........I do try to keep my eye open when my dogs are outside. Mostly the coyotes around here, but the occasional bear is sited. I love the wild nature, but if they do start preying in my backyard on my pets, that will change quickly. Might end up being a little child or an elderly person, or my wife, my children, or even me. Here in the northeast they are in denial of the cougar siteings, until one was struck by a car in Connecticut. Would love to see one, but not attacking my family or pets.

I would kill a cougar or a mountain lion with no regret. My dog and child are much more important. My 12 gauge is awaitin.....

Dang KARMA sucks!!! I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of the morons on here complaining are the same morons that were complaining about the 200 pound cuddly GRAY wolves being killed for attacking the cattle. Now the same people are screaming the BIG kitties have come to town and are killing your precious pets. I hear all the time how we choose to live out in the wild so we should deal with it. well how about all your folks that rely on us to FEED you. quit breeding so many kids and quit buying up farm land and just live in your apartments in the big city. then you could ride the bus or your bike and you would help with polution also!! Then the ranchers and farmers wouldn't have to keep moving further and further in the all the cute little sweet animals teritory. But since this will never happen, I suppose yall can just keep breeding and we will just keep protecting the livestock and crops that feed you. and all the while doing so we will keep the diseases these animals carry down also and keep protecting the land you claim we steal from you and over graze our live stock on.. You know because we just love to run our cattle on ground with no food that is over grazed. good luck feeding yourselves in 15 years folks. i hope your little gardens can feed you and that your cities allow you to keep your farm animals in your closets and basements.... Idiots idiots idots.

Neighbors fear cougars are killing pets

Get off your backside and do something yourself, if something was eating my dogs or cats, I
would be putting out traps everywhere regardless to what the law said.

I would catch that wily varmint, and all of her baby regardless to what any one said,
and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I had this problem when I was in my late teens, all the dang time "cougars" were stalking me LOL LOL

You people with the mindless "we are infringing on their territory" comments need to get out of school and work for a living. "We" don't come from outer space. Animals do not have property rights. It doesn't matter if you live in the middle of Tokyo, Berlin, Los Angeles or on top of one of the Pyramids. You are standing where some animal used to live. Before those animals lived there, some earlier species - now extinct - did the same. If we suddenly had to go "back to nature," the best "people territory" would be where there were lots of animals to kill and eat and land to farm.