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HALFWAY, Ore. (AP) -- A man shot a cougar near his neighbor's back porch after the animal charged his neighbor's 5-year-old son.
Duane Anderson shot the animal twice Sunday with a .223 caliber rifle.
Raymond Denig walked onto a back porch and saw the cougar just two feet away. The child ran back inside and the cat pursued, placing its paws on the door's window and snarling, said the boy's father, Joe Denig.
Anderson said the first indication that the large cat was in the area came Saturday night, when his three dogs became panicky.
Sunday morning the cougar was wrangling with the Denig's dog, and Anderson grabbed his gun.
George Keister, district wildlife biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the cougar appeared to be about two years old, and was extremely emaciated.
"It was getting desperate, I think. A cougar in that condition is more likely to attack a person," Keister said.
HALFWAY, Ore. (AP) -- A man shot a cougar near his neighbor's back porch after the animal charged his neighbor's 5-year-old son.
Duane Anderson shot the animal twice Sunday with a .223 caliber rifle.
Raymond Denig walked onto a back porch and saw the cougar just two feet away. The child ran back inside and the cat pursued, placing its paws on the door's window and snarling, said the boy's father, Joe Denig.
Anderson said the first indication that the large cat was in the area came Saturday night, when his three dogs became panicky.
Sunday morning the cougar was wrangling with the Denig's dog, and Anderson grabbed his gun.
George Keister, district wildlife biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the cougar appeared to be about two years old, and was extremely emaciated.
"It was getting desperate, I think. A cougar in that condition is more likely to attack a person," Keister said.