The attack occurred around 3am when a local resident let her two dogs out into the fenced backyard of her home. Moments later, she spotted a pair of glowing eyes from a mountain lion staring ...

“It’s prime mountain lion habitat,” Tira said. “It’s rural, mountainous.” After Monday’s attack, the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office closed down the county park in ...

This is not the only recent alarming attack on humans by a cougar. In 2023, an eight-year-old boy was attacked by a mountain lion while camping with his family in Olympic National Park ...

The cougar was so close Ralph just poked the rifle at it and fired without bringing ... There have been numerous documented cases of attacks on varmint callers by all three of these predators. A big ...

The dog was in the cougar’s jaws as the neighbor fired and didn’t survive the attack, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson told McClatchy News in a phone interview Tuesday ...

The cubs', Fern, Thistle, and Spruce, are about 10 months old and are 'relatively healthy' despite living without their mom ...