Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Mountain Lion moves into SoCal home, refuses to leave.

The cougar had padded out of the woods of Griffith Park sometime after midnight Monday and taken refuge in the dark, shallow space under the contemporary, white-walled home of Jason and Paula Archinaco.
By midday, two workers installing a security system as part of a home renovation climbed into the crawl space. One worker quickly came uncomfortably close — eyeball-to-eyeball close — with the cat.



Armando Navarrete, a team leader with Los Angeles Animal Services who was the first wildlife official on the scene in Los Feliz, said the mountain lion was about 25 feet behind a wall separating the crawl space from a balcony under the house.

The worker who discovered the animal looked as white as a ghost, Navarrete said, and had gotten out of there “like a bat out of hell.”

I'll bet he did.


4 comments:

  1. It's a LION.

    And yeah, best show it some respect.

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  2. I remember Barbara. That was a shock.

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  3. They eat people in Southern California. Every year or so one gets a taste for human flesh and kills or maims a few people. They especially like to pull down people on bicycles riding through the nature preserves.

    My sister-in-law rode on one of those trails within an hour of one eating incident. She was opposed to private ownership of firearms before that. Now she carries a Glock 21 when she goes riding. Isn't it amazing how a solid dose of reality changes hearts?

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