An accident was causing a traffic backup, an accident between a car and--a mountain lion.
Yes, boys and girls, we still have mountain lions here in California.
My school abuts a greenbelt along a river. It's well known that mountain lions--which almost never attack humans--live, breed, and hunt in that greenbelt. It's wild to think that such animals live in our urban and suburban areas, but they do.
The accident this morning occurred in a semi-rural area, one of those areas that used to be rural but has been developed in the last decade or so to have neighborhoods of large houses for the well-to-do.
Locally, just yesterday a mountain lion grabbed a dog off a trail. Next to his people and everything.
ReplyDeleteOur backyard is along a greenbelt. We have coyotes and bobcats and redtailed hawks. At night when a siren goes off, coyotes howl.People whine about letting their housecats out at night, ignoring that there are coyotes, bobcats and redtailed hawks in the area. I simply don't understand why people think it's okay to allow domestic pets to roam wild at night?
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