Pet cougar bites caseworker, perplexing police

Submitted by Freund Freund on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:35am
Incident date: 
Wed, 06/27/2012
Date reported: 
Wed, 06/27/2012
Date Published: 
Wed, 06/27/2012 (All day)
City: 
Pataskala
State: 
Ohio
Category: 
Human Injury
Headline: 
Pet cougar bites caseworker, perplexing police
Summary: 

A caseworker making a house call was bitten by a woman's pet cougar.  The woman claimed the cougar had no teeth and asked the caseworker if she wanted to pet the big cat. The casework declined to pet the big cat. When the case worker put her hand on the outside fence, the cougar bit her finger.

Publication: 
The Columbus Dispatch
Link: 
Pet cougar bites caseworker, perplexing police
Author: 
Lori Kurtzman
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