Spencerville, Ont. farmers say a suspected cougar is attacking their sheep [Video]

At the end of August, Misfits Farmstead near Spencerville, Ont. noticed one of their lambs had gone missing.

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“We have a small herd of sheep, so we know every one of them. They all have names,” Ashley Ladouceur explained.

She co-owns the farm with her husband, A.J. Mouchet, and after some deliberation, they both figured the sheep probably slipped through the fence and wandered off.

But then it happened again about a week later, only this time, two lambs went missing and there was a trail of evidence.

“So that’s when we started thinking, what kind of predator could take two lambs? Because they’re not small,” Ladouceur explained.

They started doing some research, and figured the only thing that made sense was some kind of wildcat, most likely a cougar.

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