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A mountain lion that attacked and killed a Los Angeles resident’s chihuahua final month has been captured, the California Division of Fish and Wildlife and the Nationwide Park Service mentioned in a information launch.
The male mountain lion, one among a number of the park service tracks within the space, was captured Monday south of his dwelling vary of Griffith Park and transferred to a wild animal care facility for analysis, the discharge mentioned.
Officers captured the lion, often called P-22, by monitoring its GPS location and had biologists dart him, the discharge mentioned. The animal is in secure situation and present process extra analysis, based on the discharge. The park service and fish and wildlife division “will work collectively to search out probably the most humane possibility accessible for the lion and the neighborhood through which he lives,” the discharge mentioned.
The assault on the chihuahua occurred on November 9, based on KTLA. Safety digital camera footage captured the mountain lion rising from the bushes onto a residential avenue and pouncing on Piper, a chihuahua combine.
Piper was one among two canine – each on leashes – being walked by an unnamed canine walker, based on KTLA. “I felt the tug and I heard Piper squeal,” the dogwalker advised KTLA. “I flip round and I simply noticed a face. I didn’t know what it was.”
The park service advised CNN on the time they weren’t conscious of another incidents involving mountain lions attacking leashed pets within the Los Angeles space, though research have recognized related incidents in different cities.
There are round 100 mountain lions, additionally referred to as cougars, pumas, or catamounts, that make their dwelling within the Santa Monica Mountains, based on the park service.
The large cats’ habitat is being impacted by roads and different improvement, which results in automobile collisions and elevated inbreeding as a result of the animals are unable to maneuver freely out and in of their space.
