Cougar kills Alberta family’s cat, returns to house hours later

A young cougar that came onto a rural Alberta property on Tuesday afternoon and killed a family’s cat returned to the house again later that evening. Jessica Low was at her home on the southwestern outskirts of Calgary at about 12:30 p.m. when the initial encounter happened. She had just prepared lunch for her five-year-old daughter when the cougar appeared through their patio window. The cougar hissed and pawed at the window for five to 10 minutes, before eventually dropping the dead cat in the family’s garden and walking away. Low said the ordeal was terrifying. She had just barely calmed down when the cougar returned to the same window around 9:15 p.m. “It (was) banging its head on the window,” Low said from her home on Wednesday. She walked over to the window and the cougar ran away. “I felt like I just stopped shaking. I was up the rest of the night, couldn’t sleep. It was terrifying,” she continued. “It just makes me more scared that this is an aggressive cat.” Alberta Fish and Wildlife officers returned to the property on Wednesday to set traps to catch the animal. As Meghan Cobb reports, the cougar sightings have shaken those who live in the the rural neighbourhood. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10750775/alberta-cougar-returns-to-rural-property/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #cougars #alberta