WEST POINT — A mountain lion snatched and killed a cat in a single day in Calaveras County, the pet’s proprietor advised CBS Sacramento on Thursday.
It occurred simply after midnight, east of the neighborhood of West Point at Palmer and Jurs roads.
Joe Buck, the cat’s proprietor, stated the household was letting the cat again contained in the home when the mountain lion took it. Buck stated it occurred three toes in entrance of his son.
Later that morning at round 6:20 a.m., the mountain lion returned to stare by a sliding glass door close to the place it took the household’s cat. Buck stated safety cameras captured when the mountain lion returned.
There have been a number of mountain lion sightings and encounters, some lethal, throughout the Sierra Nevada Foothills this yr.
Up north in El Dorado County in March, two brothers had been attacked by a mountain lion with one in all them being killed. The mountain lion was later positioned and euthanized.
Also in El Dorado County, simply greater than every week in the past, a mountain lion was caught on digicam walking throughout somebody’s garden.
If you see a mountain lion, you’re inspired to report it.