The conservation office believes the big cat swam from nearby Newcastle Island, a provincial park just a few hundred metres to the north
, and the ministry says it understands the animal isn’t acting aggressively so there is no immediate plan to capture and remove it.
A Facebook page set up by island residents shows the cougar likely arrived a day or two before Christmas, killed a deer and wasn’t expected to leave before it finished that meal.
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