November 10, 2017 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 3A
Cougar spotted again
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Cougar from Page 1A
of a violent unknown predator, possibly
a cougar.
“Our manager informed us and I
thought the public should be aware,” res-
ident Jennifer Paluch said last week.
“A couple of the tenants were out this
weekend and actually witnessed a cougar
grab a cat,” added Paluch, a mother of a
2-year-old and owner of two large dogs.
Paluch was told the animal had been
spotted and “snagged a few pets from the
complex,” she said.
Creekside
Village Apart-
ments man-
ager
Joelle
Breazier said
she reported
the incidents
to Fish and
Wildlife and
state police.
“ We ’ v e
had several
animals
go
missing
in
the last sev-
eral months,”
Breazier said.
C o s t a
Kenenounis, Joelle Breazier,
who lives at
an end unit Creekside Village
bordering the Apartments manager
woods, said
other pet owners had come by recently
searching for missing pets.
He was called Monday by a neighbor
sitting outside who witnessed a fi ght be-
tween her cat and a large animal.
“She thought it was a bobcat, but de-
scribed it as a light-tan, knee-high cat at-
tacking a neighbor cat and dragging it off
in the woods,” Kenenounis said.
Kenenounis joined the search. “I was
kind of skeptical, but I found where it
happened,” he said.
He found signs of an animal struggle
and remnants of the cat’s fur, he said.
As a hunter, he recognized what he de-
scribed as cougar tracks, “like a big dog
print, but a cat print.”
Naturalist Neal Maine said the reports
were “credible,” but coyotes were more
likely to snatch house cats than cougars.
An estimated 6,493 cougars lived in
Oregon in 2015, a healthy population, ac-
cording to the state. This summer, people
reported multiple cougar sightings near
downtown Tigard, a city of more than
48,000 outside of Portland, The Daily
Astorian reported last week.
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Cougars are part of our natural en-
vironment, Roley added. “We respond
to their presence as is appropriate
whether it is a cougar or a herd of elk
roaming the high school track.”
In 2007, cougar sightings in the
same area prompted warnings from of-
fi cials and consultation with Fish and
Wildlife. Representatives of the de-
partment came to Seaside Heights El-
ementary School to meet with offi cials
after reports of cougars in the area.
“Seaside neighborhood put on cougar
alert,” a headline read at the time.
A Seaside resident said she had
been awakened by her two dogs and
come upon a cougar outside her win-
dow eating breadcrumbs.
After families were notifi ed in the
school letter, precautions were taken
to bring activities inside, a response
similar to one taken last week in Sea-
side after neighbors feared a cougar
had snatched missing pets.
In May 2012, Warrenton Police
and the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife received reports from
citizens of sightings of a cougar near
the 300 block of First Street.
Warrenton Police Chief Mathew
Workman said at the time there had
been “three or four” sightings in the
downtown area.
An Oregon State Police sergeant in
Astoria said at the time cougars had
been seen at times near Fort Stevens,
but sightings in town were rare.
Maine recommended a network of
trail cameras to monitor wildlife.
“Even at night, they do a great job,”
he said. “With infrared, it’s enough to ID
stuff, so if people see things, it provides a
slick way to test the theory.”
Bear sighting
The owner of a Maltese dog, Kene-
nounis said he used to let his dog walk
ahead of him off leash.
“Now I don’t do it,” he said. “There’s
no way I could keep up with any animal
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Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Ber-
gin said at the time one of his staff
spotted a cougar in her backyard.
Department of Fish and Wildlife biol-
ogist Herman Biederbeck confi rmed the
reports of sightings, suggesting the cou-
gar could have been a female with a cub.
Three months later, police received
reports of what appeared to be a cou-
gar at Sixth Street and Irving Avenue
in Astoria.
Police were unable to verify the
sighting.
Victoria Hayteas, who lives at Ju-
niper Ridge in Warrenton, said Friday
neighbors have seen cougars. The
animals have been spotted “drinking
from the pond behind the Main Street
Market,” she said.
“I know there are cougars here,”
Hayteas said. “I wonder — do cougars
whistle? What I’ve been woken up to
is a whistle. … I know it’s not a bird.
Do these crazy things whistle?”
that would snatch him and run.”
Paluch is “a little frightful” that there
might be a cougar nearby, she said.
This week, Paluch reported a new in-
cident occurred at the Creekside Village
Apartments, in which a cat was snatched
by a cougar.
On Tuesday, Oct. 31, Seaside police re-
ceived a report of a bear sighting in the same
area, near Cooper Drive and Alder Drive.
While the bear was not witnessed by
police, offi cers told residents they would
increase patrols.
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