MILLCREEK, Utah \u2014 Millcreek residents were startled to find an early morning four-legged visitor hanging out in a neighborhood tree.<\/p>\n
A cougar sighting in the neighborhood near the mouth of Neffs Canyon brought a response from the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources, as well as law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n
Video taken by resident Mike Saraylian showed the cougar sitting in the tree, minding its own business.<\/p>\n
After discussing options, biologists chose to haze the cougar as a way of encouraging it to leave the area instead of using tranquilizers and risk the animal falling into a yard.<\/p>\n
After creating a clear path to exit the tree, which would lead on to the mountainside, officers used non-lethal bean bag rounds to get the cougar to leave, which it eventually did, but not before going through other backyards.<\/p>\n
“Utah is a wild space. We’ve got a lot of wildlife that cohabitate the space that we love and occupy as well,” said DWR Conservation Outreach Manager Michael Packer. “Coexistence is kind of the key; a lot of us like to recreate in this beautiful habitat, but we’re also in the backyards of a lot of cool animals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILLCREEK, Utah \u2014 Millcreek residents were startled to find an early morning four-legged visitor hanging out in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-615140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}