LELAND — A cow suffered serious facial cuts during an attack by a cougar near Lake Leland, marking the second time farm animals have been targeted by one or more cougars in the past week.
Pat Yarr, who raises beef cattle on Boulton Road about five miles north of Quilcene, said the 6-year-old brood cow was cut around its mouth and eyes during the attack he believes happened Saturday.
“It tore her up pretty good,” Yarr said of the attack.
On Sunday night, a horse was attacked by a cougar which had apparently been stalking a fawn on a farm a little more than a mile away.
Brenda Bartlett, the horse’s owner, said her animal used its front hooves to chase away the cougar.
The horse was uninjured.
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The rest of the story appears in the Thursday Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.
