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Deschutes County sheriff's deputies killed a cougar under a La Pine home deck over the weekend, after a string of pet killings, but A. Editor's note: This story contains graphic photographs and descriptions of an animal attack. Five competitive cyclists — women in their 50s and 60s — met at the Tokul Creek trail north of Snoqualmie. At the yellow gate before riding into the deep forest, the women took a group selfie. C ougars, wild cats also known as mountain lions or pumas, are reclusive and tend to stay away from humans. In the Northwest, people who spend time in the mountains know these apex predators may be lurking nearby, but sightings are rare. Even more unusual is an attack on a human. There have been 20 cougar attacks recorded in Washington state in the last century, two of which were fatal. How to Know if
"Cougars" are popularly defined as women in their 40s (or older) who date significantly younger men, generally at a year age gap or more. Two pets one dog and one cat and 12 chickens have been killed by cougars in the area recently. The Deschutes County Sheriff shot and killed that cougar under a deck. A third yearling cougar escaped and may be the one seen at the La Pine Corner Store this morning. In the last week, ODFW had also received several complaints about cougars attacking and killing pets and being seen during daytime in the La Pine area. By law, cougars are considered human safety risks when they attack pets, act aggressively, or are seen repeatedly during daylight hours in residential areas. Cougars kill pets chickens
Pop culture paints the cougar as predatory and pathetically desperate, but women have recently. AP — In a scenario that could come from a B movie, normally timid mountain lions are forced by heavy snows into a remote community, where they feast on pets and chickens. It's happening in Oregon. Cougars prowling through La Pine have killed two pets and at least 12 chickens, stoking fear in the town in the piney woods of Oregon east of the Cascade Range. On Saturday, Deschutes County deputies shot and killed a cougar that was hiding under a porch after attacking a dog. On Monday, state and federal wildlife officials went to investigate, and killed three more of the cougars whose paw prints showed they had come right up to houses, on decks and in backyards. Randy Lewis, a wildlife biologist with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, was one of the two men who tracked the cougars using dogs. 
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. A Sunriver woman went horseback riding near La Pine on Sunday with her friends and their children when she said an unwelcome visitor started stalking them: a cougar. About 45 minutes into their ride along the Ogden Group Camp trail, Tricia Ingram said her group spotted a cougar about 50 yards away. As they continued toward the McKay Crossing Campground, Ingram said Monday, the cougar kept switching back along the trail in pursuit. To avoid running into the cougar on their way back down the trail, Ingram and her group decided to ride down the Forest Service road. Ingram said the cougar crossed Paulina Creek at some point, because it followed them all the way back to the Ogden Group Camp.