In a very horrifying encounter with a California mountain lion, one of many massive cats snatched a leashed Chihuahua from a canine walker in a residential space close to the Hollywood reservoir on Friday.
9-year-old Piper, a blue merle-Chihuahua combine, was fatally mauled.
The cougar was captured on a video surveillance digital camera as he stalked and pounced.
“I felt the tug and I heard Piper squeal,” the person who was strolling the canine instructed KTLA-TV. “It was like a two- or three-second battle. He had Piper in his mouth. He didn’t growl. I didn’t even hear him. I by no means had an opportunity” to save lots of the canine.
Piper’s proprietor, Daniel Jimenez, instructed KTLA that he was devastated on the lack of the Chihuahua, whom he and his spouse adopted in 2014. “She was simply the sweetest canine,” he mentioned.
Native wildlife biologists suspect the cougar was 11-year-old “P-22,” who has made Griffith Park within the space his dwelling. P-22 was captured in 2012 and fitted with a monitoring collar. He’s typically noticed on dwelling safety cameras.
Zara McDonald, a cougar biologist with the Bay Space Puma Venture, instructed the Los Angeles Instances that folks must be extra conscious that a mountain lion “doesn’t know boundaries ... or the place it ought to or shouldn't go.”
Canine walkers must be notably vigilant with small canine from nightfall to daybreak, when mountain lions are inclined to hunt, she warned. “Small canine seem like the smaller prey” that they routinely catch of their habitat, and an assault on the pets “isn’t notably stunning,” she mentioned.
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