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Cougar that was kept as illegal pet removed from apartment
WJW ^ | Aug 30, 2021

Posted on 08/30/2021 4:41:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said that while cougars “may look cute and cuddly when young, these animals can grow up to be unpredictable and dangerous.”

New York has seen other notable cases involving dangerous animals in private residences, including Ming, a 400-pound tiger that was removed from a Harlem apartment in 2003.

Ming’s owner, Antoine Yates, was arrested and sentenced to five months in prison for reckless endangerment. Ming died in 2019 at the Noah’s Lost Ark Exotic Animal Rescue Center in Ohio.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said the cougar’s case “is currently under investigation and no further information is available at this time.”

(Excerpt) Read more at fox8.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: apartment; cougar; illegal; pet
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To: Gene Eric

You talking about the two of four legged ones???


21 posted on 08/30/2021 5:05:51 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (FI miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President)
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To: BenLurkin
If you look at YouTube animal videos, you will see loving, friendly cougars, lions, tigers, cheetahs, bears, wolves, rhinoceri, hippos, and so on. They can form complex relationships with people and with animals of different species. They all know how to play, in one way or another. Most of them like being petted. Many of them enjoy music.

I had no idea.

22 posted on 08/30/2021 5:13:13 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: BenLurkin

I recall about 30+ years ago at a small gun show a dude walking around in the crowd with an adult cougar on a heavy chain...(not his girlfriend)


23 posted on 08/30/2021 5:34:25 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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To: Albion Wilde

I’d hit that until I wore it down to a nub.


24 posted on 08/30/2021 5:47:55 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: BenLurkin

Was her young lover mad?


25 posted on 08/30/2021 5:49:13 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: BenLurkin

26 posted on 08/30/2021 5:57:12 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe the cougar is a emotional support animal or a emotional support female or a emotional support automobile .. 🤓


27 posted on 08/30/2021 6:15:20 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/5/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: Thank You Rush; quikstrike98
Don't mess with them kitties.   ROFL face
28 posted on 08/30/2021 6:25:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Always carry a laser pointer when you are in cougar territory, they love to chase the little dot.

Eventually they get to tired to stalk you anymore.


29 posted on 08/30/2021 6:33:31 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Well Christopher Walker kept a bobcat in his apartment...well it was his wife technically...at least thats what he told the census taker.


30 posted on 08/30/2021 7:03:54 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: mikelets456

Nice. You beat me to that sarcastic comment. I thought the same.


31 posted on 08/31/2021 3:49:05 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Lazamataz

We can always count on you, Laz!


32 posted on 08/31/2021 7:50:07 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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