Mountain lions in Chapel Hill? Oh my
Published: Mon, Dec. 01, 2008 04:04PM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- A Chapel Hill woman says she saw a mountain lion out her back window last week.
Linda Janssen said she was having coffee with her nephew, a 22-year-old Army private visiting for Thanksgiving, when they looked out her kitchen window Friday morning. Janssen's property backs up to Bolin Creek.
"It was big," she said. "We were just so stunned."
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Janssen said they saw the animal, as big as her black Lab, in profile and face-on and saw it leap over a tree trunk. They watched the big cat for about a minute and a half.
"It wasn't a bobcat; it didn't have that shape," Janssen said. "It was sleek, like [a Lincoln Mercury] car commercial."
"It was an absolutely beautiful animal."
Bob Marotto, director of Orange County Animal Services, said his department has received no reports of a cougar sighting.
"I would be surprised, but I'd never rule anything out," he said. "Possible? Yeah, I suppose."
mark.schultz@newsobserver.com or (919) 932-2003
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