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Another New Canaan Cougar Seen — ‘Credible’ Report, Police Say

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A New Canaan woman on Monday saw a mountain lion while walking her dog in the northern part of the town, and New Canaan Police are classifying her report as a credible cougar sighting, the third in 2018. Officer Allyson Halm, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section, called for residents in the area of Briscoe and North Wilton Roads to check surveillance videos for images of the animal. — This article originally was published by NewCanaanite.com. “We have had enough sightings that we believe are credible and people just need to always be alert,” Halm said. “We do live in the woods.

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Credible Report of Mountain Lion About a Mile from Darien Border, New Canaan Police Say

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New Canaan police say they received a credible report Thursday of a mountain lion sighting on Marvin Ridge Road, which is about a mile northeast of the northeast corner of Darien. The 7:30 a.m. sighting of the cougar crossing a backyard comes about three months after the last one and just a few houses away, according to Officer Allyson Halm, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section. ___________

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Halm is calling for all homeowners in the area of 250 Marvin Ridge Road above Nursery Road to check surveillance cameras so that police can get at least one visual confirmation.

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You Don’t Like Canada Geese? New Canaan Seems to Have a Mountain Lion

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Town officials said on Monday that they received a credible report of a mountain lion sighting in New Canaan earlier this month. And not far from Darien. The Jan. 16 sighting on the eastern end of Nursery Road (just north of the Merritt Parkway and about a mile from the northeast corner of Darien) came in from a man who described a tail three feet long — a physical characteristic that distinguishes the cougar from smaller felines, such as bobcats — and saw the animal directly in front of his car. ____________

— This article previously was published by NewCanaanite.com.