UPDATE JULY 14

Police responded to another cougar sighting on Friday near Cook Park in Tigard.

The cougar was spotted around 7:20 p.m. laying in a marshy area on the outskirts of the park. It then went into a heavily wooded area nearby.



In addition to the Tigard sighting, a the Clackamas Sheriff's Office shared video of a cougar leaping in front of a patrol car earlier Friday.

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Two cougar sightings were reported in Tigard on Friday, police say.

The Tigard Police Department said the first report came from a resident who spotted a cougar is his yard in the early morning. A cougar was then spotted again several hours later walking along a trail which runs parallel to Tigard Street, just west of downtown Tigard.

Earlier today, Tigard Police began investigating two reports of a cougar which was sighted in Tigard. The first report... Posted by Tigard Police Department on Friday, July 7, 2017

Tigard Police asks residents who see a cougar to call the non-emergency police dispatch at 503-629-0111.