By Greg Fry

Mounties shoot and kill prowling cougar in Clearwater

Nov 21, 2017 | 1:38 PM

KAMLOOPS — Mounties in Clearwater took down a perceived threat to the community this morning: a cougar.

Sgt. G.D. Simpson says the animal was spotted prowling around the Weyerhaeuser residential subdivision and at one point had come within three metres of a male. 

Police also learned the predator had killed a neighbhourhood cat.

“Officers eventually located the cougar several blocks from where it was originally sighted. It then entered a tarped-in porch of a residence under renovation and was shot by police.”

Simpson says police determined the cougar was a “significant risk to the public and had to be put down.”

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He says tranqulizing the animal was not an option because of its behaviour and unhealthy and starving condition.

Police seized the carcass for the BC Conservation Officer Service who will perform a necropsy on it.