Colorado Dinner Theater
Or breakfast theater, as the case may be. A Boulder man thought deer were acting strangely in his neighbor's yard, so he checked into it. And met the cause of the strange behavior.
A cougar was enjoying a breakfast of fresh deer in the neighbor's backyard.
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officers tranquilized a 90-pound mountain lion near a home along the foothills after a resident saw the cat devouring a deer in a neighbor's back yard.
The female cat was released later in the mountains northwest of Boulder.
The mountain lion was spotted at about 9 a.m. Thursday in a north Boulder neighborhood.
Resident Ken Furie told Division of Wildlife officials that deer were acting strangely in his neighbor's yard, jumping and showing their hooves. When he looked over the fence to see why, he spotted the mountain lion.
"The cat just looked at him," said Furie's wife, Krista.
Krista Furie called wildlife officers, who shot the mountain lion with a tranquilizer dart at 10 a.m..
The cougar got dinner, the neighbor got the show. Everyone's a winner. (We here at Blue Crab Boulevard suspect that the cat was "just looking" at Mr. Furie regretfully. A nice, tender suburbanite would have been better than a stringy, old deer.)
By curtis, Sunday, 15 April , 2007 @ 12:23 pm
Hope they let her eat her fill before they plugged her. In a hippie backwater like Boulder it’s probably the only way to get rid of deer.