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Article: Discovery Park cat gets treed and freed; 140-pound male cougar 'sweetheart' after capture; He's released into the wild but will be tracked.(News)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2009
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The young male cougar -- whose presence in Seattle's Discovery Park captured the city's attention for days -- was last seen Sunday trotting a little unsteadily up a gravel service road deep in the foothills of the Cascades, the loud sounds of a barking bear dog in his wake.
"This was about as textbook as they come," wildlife biologist Brian Kertson said as the 140-pound cat rounded a bend in the road and disappeared.
"He's now out here where cougars are meant to roam," said Kertson, who runs a cougar-rescue project. "... at least out here he has a fighting chance."
Officer Nicholas Jorg of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, who was ...