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Cougar

       I dialed my husband’s number from my kitchen, trying to finish my snack and not to lose site of a never seen strange looking animal walking through our back yard, away from the house. “Honey, I think, we got a fox… wait a second, not a fox. The tail is long and straight. Oh, myyyyy…. I think, this is the cougar in our back yard again.”        My husband had already called the animal control after a few episodes with our uninvited guests. Our house is right behind a stream, and we get raccoons, skunks, and now God knows what this is. This time, I saw the animal much closer comparing with a year ago when we were having dinner and I saw a light color animal landing on a thick branch that went down under the weight of the animal with the long tale. This animal that I first took for a dog looked just like the one I saw through the window. Yes, it was the same color, same shape…        “Yeah, I remember that the animal control confirmed that there is a cougar trail going through Sha