- Northwest Liberty School principal, Bob Hagin, had close encounter with cougar
- Hagin and his wife were inside a classroom when they saw the cougar outside
- Surveillance video shows the wild animal peering inside at the couple on Friday
- Hagin said the school recieved a second report of the cougar lurking in bushes
- The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife cougar ‘will not stick around’
A principal in Washington state and his wife had a close encounter with a cougar who decided to drop by the school for a visit.
Bob Hagin, who is the principal at Northwest Liberty School, wrote about the incident of Facebook.
Hagin said he was working in his office around 6pm when he ‘heard a sound out in our Study Lab area’.
‘I check it out, only to see the cougar pawing at a window. Another window had a lick mark on it,’ Hagin wrote on Friday.
A principal in Washington state and his wife had a close encounter with a cougar who decided to drop by the school for a visit
The encounter was also captured on surveillance video, which shows Hagin (left) and his wife (right) inside a classroom as the furry creature lurks outside
The encounter was also captured on surveillance video, which shows Hagin and his wife inside a classroom as the furry creature lurks outside.
While the two were in the classroom, the video shows the cougar peering inside.
The camera captured the cougar’s reflection as it looked through the window at the couple.
Hagin said the school had also been alerted about another cougar sighting that same day.
‘For those who don’t know where we are located, we are across from Dairy Queen along the Little Bear Creek in Woodinville, Washington.
‘Unfortunately, when the cougar was an arm’s length away, we were too stunned to grab a camera,’ Hagin wrote on the school’s Facebook page.
School officials notified the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife about the sighting.
The department told school administrators that the cougar ‘will not stick around’.
The cougar was alos spotted hiding in the brush (pictured). School officials notified the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife about the sighting. The department told school administrators that the cougar ‘will not stick around’