"There is something in us that needs this sense of wild, especially in the most drab suburban places," said Christopher Spatz, president of the Cougar Rewilding Foundation. Some experts see a deeper reason for the phenomenon: A desire to believe in a comeback by nature. It's great that there are a lot of natural woods that critters like that can survive." "It's pretty exciting to see something you would think you would have to go to a national park to see," he said. Rashe Campbell, manager of the Pet Pantry store in Greenwich, said a few customers with large Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs have come in to buy brightly colored collars in hopes of sparing them from anyone taking up arms against a mountain lion.ĭick Hoyt, who owns an outdoor trading shop in Greenwich, welcomed the animal. "Just five minutes ago somebody from Old Bedford Road said they saw it," he said. William Strain, who owns a store in the backcountry of Greenwich where the lion was spotted, said there was plenty of talk about the animal. The sightings prompted the closing of trails at the Audubon Center in Greenwich. A big cat was spotted in northwest Greenwich a day after the lion was killed in Milford and another motorist reported seeing one on the Merritt Parkway. Police in nearby Fairfield received two sightings of a mountain lion. But reports of more sightings persist in a town more accustomed to worrying about geese droppings, the future of a makeshift Wiffle ball stadium and a proposed ban on leaf blowers.Ī woman walking her dog Wednesday reported seeing two "hounds" chase a big cat, and a golf course employee said he saw a mountain lion on a stone wall. State officials believe a mountain lion killed June 11 on a highway in Milford was the same one spotted earlier more than 30 miles away in Greenwich. He acknowledged, though, that it's possible more than one cougar got loose.
I think people want to be able to say they've seen something exciting, extraordinary." "I just think people are excited about something big, dangerous and exotic. "It's a big exotic wild animal that's capable of killing a human being," Dowling said. Unconfirmed mountain lion sighting reported in Fairfield
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