I knew a woman worked at a wildlife preserve in southern California and she kept a mountain lion in her house...it was named Orfey. He mostly like to hang out in the living room and that at least had a gate. But he was also allowed to run around the house and it was real interesting to be eating dinner with Orfey running around.
They lived in what was called a “wall house” so when you drove into the neighborhood all you saw were walls instead of yards and everyone had courtyards inside those walls .... I wonder if the neighbors knew what what inside those walls.
it always gets to me that some people think that wild animals, seen on t.v. are so cute and cuddly, until they feast on your carcass.