Hayden woman encounters cougar

In the 30 years Colleen Henry has lived at her Stonehaven Drive home in Hayden, she has never come face to face with a cougar.

Until Sunday.

She was watering her lawn in the morning sunshine when she looked up and suddenly realized she had a large feline visitor climbing up a deer path on the woodsy cliff on her property.

“I looked the thing straight in the eye. It was probably about 20 feet away,” she said Monday. “I just dropped the hose and walked slowly and ran into the house and yelled at my husband. I could not believe it. I was just in shock”/ Devin Heilman , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.