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This cougar was the first one captured in
Manitoba in 30 years
(Photo: Grandview Exponent
) | | Web Posted | Nov 9 2004 04:18 PM CST
Grandview wants rare cougar for
display
WINNIPEG - Grandview Mayor
Ernie Garica wants to turn a big cat into a big draw.
He's laying claim to a cougar that was shot near the western
Manitoba town recently. It was the first to be taken anywhere in the
province since the 1970s.
According to Garica, the animal was shot by the owner of a
house in his area because it was bothering some dogs.
Garica says he wants to keep the cougar in Grandview so he
can put it on display at the local museum.
"We have all kinds of people go through the museum in the
summer time, and if they hear about a cougar being mounted there,
it's just like years ago, there was the biggest lake trout in a
museum in Regina," he says. "I know hundreds of people who went
there just expressly to see it."
This is the first cougar to have been captured in Manitoba in
more than 30 years.
"Everybody wants to make sure that it stays here. It's our
cougar, and we don't want it to end up in a museum in Winnipeg or
somewhere," he says. "We appreciate the fact that they want to do
some tests on it and check it out. I believe they can tell where it
comes from, the west or the south or whatever.
"But after they're done with it, we have to convince the
director of wildlife to please send it back to Grandview."
Garica says there have been a number of sightings of the
cougar in his area over the past couple of years.
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