Pet cougar rescued from Bronx home: 'Eventually something bad would have happened'
That’s one less cougar on the prowl.
Animal rescue authorities said an 80-pound pet cougar was surrendered last week by its owner, who called a sanctuary after realizing the big city was no place for a big cat.
The Humane Society of the United States and the state Department of Environmental Conservation teamed up with the NYPD to remove the 11-month-old cougar from a Bronx home after the owner called for help.
Authorities took the cougar to the Bronx Zoo for safekeeping until veterinarians from an Arkansas-based wildlife refuge arrived to transport it to their sanctuary.
“They came to the realization that this cougar is getting large, and it is dangerous,” said Emily McCormack, animal curator for the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge. “Those claws and those teeth and the pressure of the bite. You cannot take the wild out of these animals. Eventually something bad would have happened.”
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It's a sanctuary for wild animals who can no longer live on their own. There were several big cats there - most had been "pets." How can anyone be so clueless?? 
The mouse I bought in a store and my Dad had us set the turtle free in an artists' colony with woods and a stream. I like to think he's still there. But anyone who decides to make a pet out of a big cat is just asking for trouble. My domestic cat who I found as a kitten in a supermarket parking lot is wild enough. 
I wish people would stop doing stupid-ass things like this!!!!!!!
