A few days ago, a Colorado family’s teacup dog went wandering — only to encounter a hungry mountain lion. Naturally, when the little dog decided to head home, the mountain lion followed, only to find four more “guard dogs” upon arrival. The family’s Jack Russell Terrier, as well as four Shih-Tzus, attempted to fight the mountain lion, but apparently, their guard dog skills weren’t quite honed enough — the mountain lion killed (just) one of the dogs, but managed to trap the three human family members in the house until the sheriff could come. After evacuating the humans, authorities opted to tranquilize the mountain lion, and subsequently euthanized it in the hopes of eliminating any further hunting of small domestic animals. Apparently, wild animals should know better than to go by their natural instincts — or else.
[Via: The Goat]
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This cat’s “natural instincts” led it into a human home through a doggie door. Sure the instincts are to hunt and kill and the mtn lion was determined to be malnourished, but natural instincts normally keep these things away from human scents. The other shih-tzus were lucky to have only lost their eyes.
I think it’s interesting how we build houses on land that we know is wild animal territory, and then are surprised to have a run in with said wild animal.