By City News Service
May 12, 2021
ALTADENA (CNS) - A cougar that was found dead in the San Gabriel Mountains could not have its cause of death determined, it was announced today.
The cougar was found on March 14 by hikers walking along a trail, according to the Cougar Conservancy.
The non-profit organization s Conflict Task Force, with cooperation from the Altadena Town Council, investigated the scene and spoke with residents in the area in an attempt to determine how the cougar died.
However, the Cougar Conservancy announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday that a cause of death could not be determined due to the body s “postmortem state.”
Family shocked after mountain lion kills 17 goats on their Acton farm
LOS ANGELES - An Acton family was shocked to see nearly 20 of their goats slaughtered by a mountain lion. Now nearby residents are concerned.
They have lived here for years, homesteaders making a life off the grid. Horses, goats, chickens are as common as dogs and people near the Acton foothills just north of Los Angeles.
Predators are a part of life, be it coyotes, hawks and yes, mountain lions. Young lions usually have enough prey with the local deer and other wildlife, and may occasionally go after livestock.
MORE Dr. Jamie Peyton, UC Davis Veterinary Medical Hospital, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) staff evaluate a lion s burned paw pads, as it is treated for burns sustained from the Bobcat Fire, at the Wildlife Investigations Lab, California, U.S., September 23, 2020. Photo by California Department of Fish and Wildlife/Reuters.
Gary Potter wasn’t paying much attention when he walked outside of his Monrovia home one night last September. And then he looked up.
There it was, the color of caramel, in his yard.
“The cat was stretched out right here in the grass, just staring at me. And I went, ‘hello,’” Potter said with a laugh in a video shot by the non-profit Cougar Conservancy. “And I just kind of slowly backed myself up and back into the house.”