Mountain Lion

This last weekend Ellie came in the house to tell us that there was a Mountain Lion under the freeway underpass. Ray and I told her that was nice and then told her to go out and play.
A little while later she came in again to tell us that all the neighbors were talking about this Mountain Lion that was killed under the freeway underpass. So on Monday as I was waiting out front of the school waiting for Jake, I started talking to one of the sisters in our ward. I asked her about the Mountain Lion everyone was talking about, and she said that indeed there had been a Mountain Lion. She said that it had been seen coming down the Madsen's (counselor in the bishopric) driveway, and then hid up under the underpass. She told me that the fish and game had intended to tranquilize it and relocate it, but as they began to strategies they noticed the crowds of people coming to watch, and they even had several people confront the officers and started causing problems so they worried that it would run and they would loose site of it. So in the end they decided it was best just to euthanize it. I was amazed how far into town this cat was able to come. He was quite a few miles from any of the mountains in town. I was also quite bothered by the fact that this cat was less than a mile from my house. It has put a whole new fear in my mind. As I was talking to this gal in my ward and she was saying how she figures that the several cats in our ward that are missing, and even a couple of dogs were probably breakfast, lunch, and dinner for this big cat, I decided that our little pillow kitty was maybe a midday snack for this big cat. I am glad that they took care of the Mountain Lion, but kinda sad that they felt the best way to handle it was to kill him. But, I am more glad that no one was hurt by this wild animal.