Posted on 06/24/2020 11:11:23 AM PDT by SJackson
Captain Amy Corso woke up last Thursday at 1:30 a.m. to the sound of her crying toddler.
Corso didn't need to get up for work until 3 a.m., but she couldn't fall back asleep because she immediately started thinking about the task ahead of her that day - tracking down a lost mountain lion in the city and capturing it.
Corso is the field services supervisor for San Francisco's Animal Care & Control and in recent days she and her colleague Officer Stephanie Pone had been consumed with the wild cat prowling city streets at night. The two had been pounding the pavement, patrolling city streets, and interviewing neighbors and building security guards, asking them to share surveillance footage.
"When we started piecing together how far this animal was going and where he was going, it became clear he didn't know what he was doing," said Corso. "I was getting very worried about this guy, especially when I saw footage of him going into little courtyard areas, places he woudn't be able to get out of if people entered. I didn't want him to get cornered and scared."
Corso was in her vehicle patrolling the city by 2 a.m. and Pone joined her at 4 a.m. in hopes of finding that mountain lion.
The mountain lion was first spotted on June 16 and photographed on Russian Hill (image below), along the Embarcadero and near the Salesforce Tower. There was a report on Wednesday of it lurking around the streets near Rincon Hill.
Corso and Pone focused their search in the South of Market area, talking to anyone who was on the street and awake.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Presumably the lion feasting on marsupials at the zoo
Mountain lion captured in downtown San Francisco suspected in deaths of 3 marsupials at zoo
Cougars vs cougar?
These mountain lions and coyotes are being attracted to the stench of human feces on the streets. The predatory carnivore animals sense that a new sick herd has congregated in San Francisco and would make a good food source.
“...Cougars vs cougar?”
Cougars gonna coug!
I notice “she” was not at all worried about the humans sleeping on the street in a feces-infested environment who would be the mountain lion’s next prey.
Beautiful kitty, but potentially deadly.
Is there a lonelier place to be a cougar than San Francisco?
Beautiful cat alone among many thousands of UGLY leftist people.
Yours,TMN78247
Defund the pet police.
Would this even have been a story if it had been a couple of guys who caught the kitty?
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