Live cougar trapped in Manitoba [Video]

A Manitoba trapper hoping to nab a wolf got the surprise of his life when he caught the province’s first-ever live cougar instead.

Clint Janzen set foothold traps at the end of February near Duck Mountain Provincial Parks.

One day he found a coyote in one of them.

“When I went to check, it was dead and ate. The traps I was using doesn’t kill an animal, it just holds them, so I just thought that the wolves had come and killed the coyotes.”

He reset the traps but when he came back the next day, he was face to face with a live cougar.

“It was amazing,” he told CTV News Winnipeg.

He took some video and pictures from a distance, and sent them into the province.

Cougars are a protected species in Manitoba, meaning they cannot be kept or deliberately killed in defence of property.

A female cougar trapped in the Parklands and released by the …