Homeowner kills mountain lion in Orange Co.

[spectr17]

Orange County Registar

January 29, 2003

Homeowner kills mountain lion

A 90-pound mountain lion was killed by a Silverado Canyon man Monday night after he found it attacking two of his goats, officials said. An Orange County Animal Control officer was shining a spotlight on the young animal when the homeowner killed it with one gunshot. The female lion attacked the two goats about 7:30 p.m. in a pen behind a house in the 29200 block of Silverado Canyon Road. Livestock should be kept in roofed pens so mountain lions cannot get inside, Health Department spokesman Howard Sutter said. The homeowner was within his rights to protect his livestock by killing the lion, said Lt. Angel Raton of the California Department of Fish and Game.

 

[PHOnos]

Now, if we can just get-um to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Santa Ana Mountains . . .

 

[doghouse95]

Ya right. Keep livestock in pens with a roof on it.
I was raised on a ranch with 1,500 cows, over a hundred bulls, and about 60 horses.
WE had a government lease in the mountains of 1.75 million acres for our summer
ground, and 30,000 acres in the foothills for winter ground.
What roof are we supposed to put them under?
Come to think of it, I don?t think I ever saw all the cows in any one place in my entire life.
We were always out a few cows and at least one bull.