OAK HARBOR -- On a quiet morning this past May, a resident of a
retirement center in Oak Harbor says she was looking out her window and
saw it move. A cat. Not just any cat, but a very big cat that looked
like a mountain lion or a cougar. Tan in color and moving fast across
the fields. She wasn't the only one to see it, other residents and
workers also saw the feline before it vanished. The sighting was
reported to police and soon thereafter, as a safety precaution, recess
was cancelled at a nearby grade school. Traps were set by wildlife
officials in hopes that they might catch it.
That was 4 months
ago, but no tracks were ever found and no other traces of the big cat
were ever discerned. That's how these "cat sightings" are. Fleeting. It
was the same story in Ottawa County, in the summer of 1990, where
residents of the small village of Genoa were also shaken by reports of a
big "black cat" that was seen "loping" across SR 163 just inside the
village limits. A subsequent search turned up little.
Mike
Mullins, a private investigator, who was the police chief of nearby Clay
Center at the time, says the report was very credible, coming from two
of the village employees. They were adamant that it was some kind of
large black leopard, and not a fat house cat. But a thorough search and
investigation turned up no evidence that a large exotic feline had come
to visit to the area. These types of reports are not isolated. The
number of "big cat sightings, around the nation and around the world,
are common.
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