RCADIA – Officials believe a mountain lion killed Wednesday night may have been the same cat that’s been preying on domestic pets in foothill communities over the past few weeks.
Arcadia police shot the cougar about 8 p.m. in the backyard of a home in the 2200 block of Canyon Road, a residential community that abuts the Angeles National Forest.
Officers said the mountain lion had just mauled a dog to death and was charging at police when they shot the cat with an assault weapon.
Arcadia police Sgt. Dean Caputo said the mountain lion – believed to be a 140-pound female – may have been the same cat that killed a dog in Arcadia a few days earlier and attacked two dogs in Glendora last week. One was killed.
“They are travelling quite a wide area hunting, so this one could have been anywhere up in the mountains,” Caputo said.
“You pretty much have an unrestricted area in the San Gabriel Valley mountain range.”
At least three Arcadia police officers responded to the Canyon Road home on Wednesday night after a resident reported a mountain lion sighting.
Officers found the mountain lion standing over the resident’s dead dog, an Australian Shepherd.
“She had huge paws, and she wasn’t very intimidated by our officers,” Caputo said.
The cat was being housed at the Pasadena Humane Society’s morgue and was expected to be picked up Thursday evening.
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