The story makes more sense when you look at the pictures with the article (from the video). These sheep weren’t inside a barn, they were in an outdoor pen adjacent to a barn. I was wondering how the mountain lion got into the barn, since presumably a rancher who’d already lost several sheep would close and secure the barn door if his sheep were insie for the night.
These critters have got to be killed, because not only does it mean that this mountain lion has “keyed in on livestock,” it means that it’s lost its fear of humans, or it would never have been that close.
Did you know that in the ancient Middle East (and, actually, even in more modern sheep-raising parts of Europe such as Spain), the shepherd would sleep across the threshold to the sheep-pen? This prevented the sheep from going out and anything else from coming in. Hence Jesus’ words, “I am the gate of the sheep...”
The first ( top ) video looks like the inside of a barn.
Still, he should have closed the barn door ?