There’s been another confirmed cougar sighting in southeast Wisconsin.
According to a report in the Journal Sentinel, a 50-pound cougar believed to be a year-and-a-half old turned up underneath a pine tree in the back yard of a home in Brookfield Saturday night. That’s a northwestern Milwaukee suburb.
Police and D-N-R wardens were called in, but they couldn’t use a dart gun because of thick underbrush and the close proximity to homes.
They came back Sunday morning and tracked the cougar in a southeasterly direction but lost the trail.
It’s unclear whether the animal is the same one spotted a week-and-a-half ago in Colgate, about 15-miles to the north.
The D-N-R says the closest known breeding population of cougars is in South Dakota. They say any cougars spotted in this area are just passing through.
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