Cougar Spotted Outside Property in Washington County, Wisconsin

CCTV footage captured the moment a cougar strolled outside a property in Washington County, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, February 7.The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR), which shared the video on February 14, said their biologists had verified the animal seen in the footage was a cougar and was “likely the same cougar that was recently identified in Fond du Lac County and is now out of the area”.“Currently, there is no evidence of a breeding population in Wisconsin,” according to WDNR. “The nearest established cougar population is in the Black Hills area of South Dakota, and animals dispersing through Wisconsin are believed to originate from this population.”Anyone with unusual animal sightings was encouraged to alert the department, Fox News reported. Credit: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources via Storyful