Brenda Brenda:
Euhmm... I am very sorry for this child, really, but... mom... YOU live there too, don't you. You can blame it on development, but you live somewhere too, that once was cougar/bear country...
Maybe you should not blame, and see it as an accident that happens when you live in a country like Canada with lots of wildlife...
Did you SEE mom in this story? She's a spaced-out waif that looks like she's been lifted straight out of Haight-Ashbury, circa 1966. The grass ain't cut, there's likely a big goddamn compost heap right by the house. Mom likely ATTRACTED the cougar. Then she says "the cougar gave my daughter back to me", like it was some transcendental intra-species moment. Fuckin' kooks everywhere.