"Being aggressive and dominant with a cougar is very important," added Norris. "It's human instinct to rush in, it often works, but it does put that person in harms way as well," he said. Norris says that intervening in such attacks can save animals and people involved, though he notes that it does put people at risk. "It's amazing what mankind will do to protect the ones they love, right?" he said. Payne describes the entire encounter as "pretty intense." "It was pretty insane, it could have been a lot worse." "When we got her we put her on the hood of the car right away and started doing first aid, and all we had was gauze and duct tape," he said. Payne says he only suffered minor scratches on the back of his calf. The Port Alberni man says the cougar stood on its hind legs and swung its front paws at him before running away. "I realize what's going on so I kick it twice in the ribs and then it kind of lets go of Alaska," said Payne. " belly was facing up this way, and the cat was biting on her head," he said.
Payne says he thought the cougar was initially a large house cat, but then he realized what was going on.
"When I looked over I saw this paw reach out right from underneath those bushes there and I was like, 'Alaska, what the hell?' So I get up and all of a sudden the cat just pounces on Alaska," he told CTV News on Friday. when a cougar ambushed his Boston terrier, Alaska. Mark Payne says he was letting his dog out around 9 p.m. "We had a dog in an urban area, the owner intervened and got injured in the process," said Norris. "And that often brings them into conflict with people and in this case that's what happened." "It's easier for them to get at," he said. Norris says sometimes young cougars who are struggling to learn to hunt sometimes come across feral cats and other small prey in urban areas. "We'll examine and see if there's a reason why the cougar was acting this way," he said. No other cougar sightings have been reported as of Friday morning. Other conservation officers were still in the area Friday with cameras and a trap set up, though Norris says he's "fairly confident" the right cougar was located, since it matched the description given to them and was found in the area. The conservation officer says the next step is for the cougar to be looked over by a provincial veterinarian in a necropsy. "The cougar appeared to be injured at the time," he said. "Officers were able to attend and got the cougar up a tree," said Norris. Norris says a cougar matching the description of Wednesday's incident was spotted crossing a highway close to where conservation officers already were. "But while we were still in the area we had some fresh sightings," he said.
"With the warm weather and thick bush, the dogs lost the scent unfortunately," said Scott Norris, acting inspector with the B.C. The attack occurred along Timberlane Road on Wednesday evening, and conservation officers were out with tracking hounds on Thursday morning looking for the animal. Conservation officers say a cougar that is believed to have attacked a small dog in Port Alberni, B.C., was put down on Thursday.
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