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A cougar was spotted roaming a wooded area in the township. The cat was suspected to be a cougar and someone’s escaped or set-free “pet.”

A 7-ft-long python escaped from its home and was found slithering in the front yard of a South Everett man’s home.

Lowell, a 300-pound, 19-year-old orangutan, escaped the confines of his cage at the Seneca Park Zoo and embraced a volunteer cleaning his area. The volunteer tried to slip out, but Lowell picked him up and carried him down a passageway before finally climbing back into his cage and pushing the volunteer out. The facility was locked down, all visitors were evacuated, and an ambulance called. The zoo reopened shortly after the incident.

A black bear escaped from an exotic animal collection. It took deputies more than an hour to get him back to his cage. Neighbors said this was the fourth time the bear had escaped from the man who had many other exotic animals, including a Bengal tiger, a cougar, and an alligator.

A 12-ft-long Burmese python escaped from his enclosure.

Fu Manchu, an orangutan at the Henry Doorly Zoo, picked the lock of his cage each night and escaped. Workers eventually found the pick in Fu Manchu’s cage; the pick was a piece of wire he hid between his lips and gums.

A black bear escaped from his home and was later recaptured. This was the fourth time the bear had escaped.

A python was found in Everett’s Silver Lake. It was suspected that the snake was someone’s “pet.”

A gray fox wearing a collar was spotted alongside a road. The fox had been kept in a ferret cage.

A “pet” mountain lion escaped his home and attacked and injured a neighbor’s dog. The dog was rushed to a vet hospital with more than 100 lacerations, where he was treated and released.