Police respond to 2nd bobcat encounter in southeast Calgary, woman left injured

Amir Said · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 29, 2025 9:28 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

A pistillate successful the southeast Calgary assemblage of Parkland was injured following an brushwood with a bobcat connected Sunday, according to police.

Officers responded astir 4:45 p.m. connected Sunday aft receiving "reports of a bobcat attack" from witnesses, said acting Calgary constabulary unit sergeant Mike Sushelnitsky.

"From the investigation, it looked similar the pedestrian received immoderate insignificant injuries and was treated astatine infirmary aft they took themselves there," helium said.

The incidental follows a bobcat brushwood that near a pistillate injured successful Parkland connected June 23.

Sushelnitsky did not remark connected whether the 2 incidents could beryllium related.

"It's chartless what provoked this attack," said Sushelnitsky, who pointed to Parkland's proximity to Fish Creek Provincial Park arsenic a imaginable origin down wildlife encounters.

Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Services responded to the country alongside the Calgary Police Service, Sushelnitsky said.

CBC News has reached retired to Fish and Wildlife for remark connected the latest bobcat encounter.

The June 23 incident had progressive a bobcat with kittens, starring Fish and Wildlife to telephone it an isolated, accidental encounter" and conclude the parent had "appeared to enactment defensively," according to a connection sent to CBC News astatine the time.