Posted on 08/12/2025 6:45:53 AM PDT by george76
A mountain lion bit an 11-year-old girl outside her home in Malibu on Sunday and then proceeded to chase her mother and sibling
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The girl was doing her chores near a chicken coop on the property in the 32500 block of Pacific Coast Highway when the mountain lion pounced...
It attacked her from behind, knocking her onto her stomach and biting her right arm, leg and lower back, Tira said. The girl’s mother was nearby and heard her child’s screams and ran over with one of the girl’s siblings.
“That’s when the mountain lion proceeded to chase the mother and the sibling,”..
One of the family members had a stun gun and the sound of the weapon scared away the mountain lion, ..
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies from the Malibu/Lost Hills station responded to the attack
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The Los Angeles County Fire Department also responded to the scene and took the girl to Los Robles Regional Medical Center,
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Sunday’s attack is the 27th reported mountain lion attack on a human since 1986, according to the latest Fish and Wildlife data. The majority of the encounters were nonfatal. The most recent fatal attack was in March 2024 when a mountain lion killed a 21-year-old man in El Dorado County.
In September, another young adult mountain lion attacked a 5-year-old boy in Malibu Creek State Park.
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Last week, a mother in Carson also rescued her small child from an animal attack — in that case, a coyote. The animal started biting and dragging a 6-year-old boy away at a local park; his mother intervened and
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If the sound of the stun gun scared it away, likely it wasn’t rabid- had it been, it’d likely kept attacking in berserker mode. But who knows. Hopefully not rabid.
This is what happens when you make an apex predator sacrosanct. Mountains lions are cannot be hunted in California. Take away the only predator they have, and you take away any fear of humans.
Mountain lions gotta eat. They might be in a food desert. 😳
I hate hearing this, enough are killed by trying to cross LAs busy freeways, which have created a DNA bottleneck. But humans trump mountain lions.
A new wildlife bridge is about to open in the area so wildlife that is hemmed in by the freeways can cross over:
Wow! Ritzy address! I’m surprised it’s still standing after the fires
Repeal Prop 197. Of course, putting the cats back under DFW is almost as bad. Those clowns are delusional idiots.
Mountain lions are wildly overpopulated in California, and herbivory has taken a serious hit as a result. Hunting was much more humane than waiting for them to habituate to people then for both to suffer the consequences.
I remember when Mountain Lions in California were considered a “Protected species” and no hunting allowed.
Since then there have been quite a few problems with the growing population of the big cats.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article182397016.html
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion/Hunting
1972: Mountain lion hunting moratorium implemented due to declining populations.
1986: Mountain lions listed as a game species, though no hunting occurred.
1990: Mountain lions became a specially protected species with the passage of the California Wildlife Protection Act (Proposition 117).
Indeed and people wonder why their pets go missing and in some cased people.
How many tens of millions will California waste building their mountain lion crossover?
As opposed to spending it on the people.
Correct.
I see it more as people shouldn’t endanger wildlife by moving into its habitat, putting out bait (chicken coops, little kids gamboling about the coop in the early evening), and then get all surprised when wildlife acts naturally. I’m very glad the child wasn’t killed, but with parental foresight and common sense, perhaps she wouldn’t have been injured or the mountain lion killed.
>> Mountain lion bites 11-year-old girl in Malibu then chases her mother and sibling <<
Adrian Monk was right. It’s a jungle out there.
https://youtu.be/aSZy8USmzME?list=RDaSZy8USmzME&t=42
Would it cost more than the Train to Nowhere that doesn't have any track laid yet?
The wildlife crossovers, along with fencing, save many human lives from automobile/wildlife collisions in Oregon. Oregon Hunters Association promotes these crossovers.
Before the ban on maintaining a population conducive to coexistence, these cases only occurred when kittens were threatened or the adult was rabid.
Unfortunately, the lack of common sense on the part of the California people by accepting the falsehood that mountain lions are rare; and the lack of common sense on the parent is what led to this incident.
So you propose no new human habitations be allowed?
While no doubt much urban area could be cleaned and rebuilt better the two legged feral are the problem there.Including the twp legged ferals called poljtical leaders who prey on the weak.
I wonder how the animals know to use the bridge. Do they have signs up for them to read?
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