Terri Irwin

And I hope I'm remembering this correctly.

Something happened, I think, to the mother and the cubs that they got separated.

So Benji the dog was going to get the family back together.

So as the movie filmed, the baby cougars got bigger.

So they kept replacing them with new baby.

Right.

So then after the movie was over, they have all these young cougars and they put them into the pet trade.

So this guy buys them and then he was selling this cougar cub for thirteen hundred dollars.

So I look at it and it's got it's in a little pen and the furs rubbed off its forehead and it's got big joints like the beginnings of rickets and it's not happy.

So it was just sitting there quietly.

And I thought $1,300 is about all the money I've got.

So I called the United States Department of Agriculture and reported what was going on.

And I remember I talked to Dr. Overton, who said to me, my jurisdiction is the 96,000 square miles of Oregon plus Northern California.

So he said the reality is by the time I check on this guy to see if he's doing the right thing, it'll probably be six months.

And I said, in six months, this cougar is going to be dead.

Like nobody takes that.

It'll be dead.

So I learned all about what I needed to do.

I worked on my backyard to have everything to code to take on a cougar.

I brought the cougar cub home.