![Port Alberni resident captures video of a cougar dragging a deer in her backyard](https://cdn.cheknews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/12225017/Port-Alberni-Cougar-e1536769166832.jpg)
WATCH: An Alberni Valley mother is still shaken by a wild encounter with a cougar in her backyard Tuesday. Marnie Robinson had just dropped her boys off at school and returning home heard loud yowling that she thought was a catfight. Skye Ryan reports.
A Port Alberni resident is warning neighbours to keep their kids and pets safe after watching a cougar drag a dead deer in her backyard and posting a video of it to social media.
“Warning to my neighbours on Springfield Road and surrounding area . . . cougar was just in my backyard, took down a deer and dragged it into the bushes near Evergreen Park.” Marnie Robinson said in a Facebook post.
WATCH: Marnie Robinson of Port Alberni posted a video on Facebook of a cougar dragging a deer in her backyard. Viewer discretion is advised.
Robinson’s video has been viewed nearly 70,000 times in less than 24 hours since posting it on Facebook.
![Picture from Marnie Robinson of Port Alberni, who watched a cougar enter her backyard on Springfield Road and take down a deer, before dragging the animal into the bushes near Evergreen Park.](https://cdn.cheknews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/12225017/Port-Alberni-Cougar-e1536769166832.jpg)
Picture from Marnie Robinson of Port Alberni, who watched a cougar enter her backyard on Springfield Road and take down a deer, before dragging the animal into the bushes near Evergreen Park.
Robinson says she got to within 50 feet of the cougar and snapped pictures with a telephoto lens of the big cat with its prey.
![Cougar takes down a deer in a Port Alberni resident's backyard. Photo courtesy Facebook/Marnie Robinson.](https://cdn.cheknews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/12225015/Cougar-takes-down-deer-e1536769477729.jpg)
Cougar takes down a deer in a Port Alberni resident’s backyard. Photo courtesy Facebook/Marnie Robinson.
Robinson says she has never seen a cougar before in the wild.
“As amazing as it was, I hope I never see one again.”