A mountain lion was attacking a dog in Downieville early in the morning on Monday when a neighbor shot and killed it, according to wildlife officials.

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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 ...

A resident shot and killed a mountain lion attacking their neighbor’s dog in a California neighborhood, officials said. The dog was in the cougar’s jaws as the neighbor fired and didn’t survive the ...

“At the same time,” the Mountain Messenger reports, “a family friend, who was also called just after the neighbor, arrived on ...

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Mountain lion attacks are rare in California, but incidents have been increasing and the cats' behavior has been changing in the past few decades, according to on-the-ground accounts. Writer ...

“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 ...

A hard-to-spot mountain lion patiently waits for the right moment to attack an elk feeding in a gully at the Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico in a photo posted by the refuge.

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 ...