Feline fast food
When you think of fast food, you probably picture a situation where you can enter an establishment, quickly determine what you'd like to eat and dine expeditiously, then go on with your business.
In cat-eat-cat Colorado, Matthew and Deborah Silverman came home to find their pet devoured by a much larger feline.That's pretty much how it played out for a young mountain lion in Boulder, Colo., on Mother's Day.
The immature, 50-pound cougar entered a residence by using a pet door and proceeded to kill and eat the family cat. When the lion was finished with Matthew and Deborah Silverman's 15-year-old kitty, Mungit, it ate the pet's dry cat food for dessert.
When the Silvermans returned home to find the remains of their kitty and a much larger feline resting by a tree in their backyard, they notified authorities.
Following an afternoon-long capture effort, which included at least a dozen individuals from the local police department and the Colorado Division of Wildlife, the cougar finally was sedated and trapped.
Aaron Harber, a neighbor who witnessed the ordeal, blogged about the Mother's Day mountain-lion incident in yesterday's Rocky Mountain News.
"Because the Silverman's backyard opened up into the neighbor's, we had a good view during the three-hour standoff," Harber wrote. "The 12-member team had guns, tasers and a variety of tranquilizers and delivery devices, as well as nets."
Last month a 7-year-old boy was injured by a mountain lion while hiking with his family near Boulder. The cougar was tracked and killed by state wildlife authorities.
When you think of fast food, you probably picture a situation where you can enter an establishment, quickly determine what you'd like to eat and dine expeditiously, then go on with your business.
In cat-eat-cat Colorado, Matthew and Deborah Silverman came home to find their pet devoured by a much larger feline.That's pretty much how it played out for a young mountain lion in Boulder, Colo., on Mother's Day.
The immature, 50-pound cougar entered a residence by using a pet door and proceeded to kill and eat the family cat. When the lion was finished with Matthew and Deborah Silverman's 15-year-old kitty, Mungit, it ate the pet's dry cat food for dessert.
When the Silvermans returned home to find the remains of their kitty and a much larger feline resting by a tree in their backyard, they notified authorities.
Following an afternoon-long capture effort, which included at least a dozen individuals from the local police department and the Colorado Division of Wildlife, the cougar finally was sedated and trapped.
Aaron Harber, a neighbor who witnessed the ordeal, blogged about the Mother's Day mountain-lion incident in yesterday's Rocky Mountain News.
"Because the Silverman's backyard opened up into the neighbor's, we had a good view during the three-hour standoff," Harber wrote. "The 12-member team had guns, tasers and a variety of tranquilizers and delivery devices, as well as nets."
Last month a 7-year-old boy was injured by a mountain lion while hiking with his family near Boulder. The cougar was tracked and killed by state wildlife authorities.
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