Officials: Big cat captured on Wichita door camera is cougar

Wichita

Wildlife officials say a Wichita doorbell camera captured video of a mountain lion trotting along a residential back alley earlier this week. Kansas Department of Wildlife Research Biologist Matt Peek tells KAKE it's the first confirmed cougar sighting in Wichita. The video was captured early Monday morning on Cris Boyle's doorbell camera, showing the large cat padding along the alleyway in the Riverside neighborhood. The wildcat can even be heard growling as it passes by Boyle's house. Peek says wildlife officials have notified Wichita police of the sighting so that if someone else reports seeing a mountain lion on their property, "that they take it seriously because it is possible.”