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We live up against the Cedar River (Seattle) Watershed. 90,000 + acres, no hunting, you can't even hike there. When we bought the property I heard that the wildlife that comes out of there is huge - I had no idea how much of it there would be! Since they have never been hunted, they don't have much fear of people. I didn't even use a zoom for most of those photos! It's a little nerve wracking to be standing at the bus stop with the kids and have a big heard of elk come out of the woods across the street! I think that is why most of our neighbors let their dogs run free; they think it will keep the wildlife away. The bears usually run off when they see people. The elk aren't scared of anything. The males can be really intimidating, They stare you down and paw the ground! When they do that I crouch low to the ground and creep away. If I just turn and run, they follow! My dog slinks away too because she got kicked in the head once. Vet said she was lucky to be alive. (I keep my dogs in my fenced yard but the fence is nothing to an elk if apples are ripe). A family with a bunch of kids down the hill from me moved because a cougar would sun himself on their driveway nearly every time the sun was out! They called the Wildlife department and were told it was a young male (they are the most dangerous). They have several satelite tagged out here. They won't trap them and relocate them here.
I would use the paint gun on the cougar.