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IDLEYLD PARK — “Fast Food Freddy” had better stay off Phyllis Simpson’s back porch, otherwise she’ll greet the cat-swiping cougar next time with her Smith & Wesson .44-caliber pistol.
For 14 years Simpson has lived 26 miles up the North Umpqua River, off Highway 138 East just east of the Dogwood Motel on the edge of the Umpqua National Forest. Until last Thursday, she’d never seen a cougar in her yard.
But that evening, there stood the estimated 100-pound mountain lion on her back porch, four feet from her and with the head of Ratliegth, Simpson’s fourth outside cat killed in recent weeks, firmly clasped in its mouth.
IDLEYLD PARK — “Fast Food Freddy” had better stay off Phyllis Simpson’s back porch, otherwise she’ll greet the cat-swiping cougar next time with her Smith & Wesson .44-caliber pistol.
For 14 years Simpson has lived 26 miles up the North Umpqua River, off Highway 138 East just east of the Dogwood Motel on the edge of the Umpqua National Forest. Until last Thursday, she’d never seen a cougar in her yard.
But that evening, there stood the estimated 100-pound mountain lion on her back porch, four feet from her and with the head of Ratliegth, Simpson’s fourth outside cat killed in recent weeks, firmly clasped in its mouth.