Michelle Bese of Salida, Colorado was sitting at the table with her five-year-old while her other child slept in another room. One her five dogs came in through the dog door and was followed by a cougar! Bese grabbed her son and hid in the bedroom where the two-year-old was and called 911. Sheriff's deputies helped the family escape through a window.
One dog died from injuries and two dogs lost one eye each. The cougar, believed to be starving, was euthanized. Link -via Arbroath
"I looked in a bedroom window and could see a dog which I believed to be dead," said Division of Wildlife area manager Jim Aragon. "The lion was in the same room, so I pounded on the window and side of the house in an attempt to get the lion to leave through one of the open doors."
Eventually, Aragon and wildlife officer Kim Woodruff, along with Chaffee County Sherriff's deputy Rod Lane, entered the home through the back bedroom window. They found the cougar in a room directly across the hall.
"We cracked the door open wide enough to see the lion and were able to shoot it with a tranquilizer dart," Aragon said.
One dog died from injuries and two dogs lost one eye each. The cougar, believed to be starving, was euthanized. Link -via Arbroath
That won't even work against racoons.
This is a sad story all around. I'm glad the family is safe.
Once again, a wild animal died because there are too many stupid humans.
Yes it's sad that one of the dogs died and 2 others were injured, but the lion was just doing what nature intended.
Wish they could've at least tried helping the poor thing instead of just killing it.
It is sad that the animal had to be euthanized, but people come first, and a dangerous animal that isn't afraid of people can't be set free. The real problem is habitat. If people didn't feel the need to sprawl, it wouldn't be so bad. But I'm not going to blame these people for what happened to them.
It is sad that the animal died but as a species, saving our kind is more of an imperative than biodiversity
Either way, sad story all around.