An animal rights group will be gathering in front of Santa Monica City Hall this afternoon to protest the killing of a mountain lion near the Third Street Promenade last week. The group In Defense of Animals are demanding better tactics that they say would have prevented the death of a 3-year-old female mountain lion. more ›

When a young mountain lion was spotted inside a Downtown Santa Monica building Tuesday, authorities say they made every effort to subdue the wild animal, but ultimately made the decision to fatally shoot the young male. Now, animal rights activists are questioning the actions of those authorities, and are calling for an investigation into the shooting. more ›

Authorities said that they were forced to shoot and kill a young mountain lion that wandered into a Downtown Santa Monica building today after multiple unsuccessful efforts to contain it. more ›

When you spot roadkill on the freeway, the first thing that pops into your head is SOUVENIR, right? Well, for at least one Californian that is strangely the case. Authorities say someone sawed off the paws of a dead mountain lion after it was struck and killed by a car on the 101 Freeway. more ›

Cars are at the top of the food chain: a mountain lion suspected of mauling a mare at an animal care center in Lancaster ended up getting hit by a car yesterday. County animal control officers put down the cougar because it was so badly injured. more ›

The people have spoken, and the votes have been tallied: The pair of rescued mountain lion cubs being cared for at a Paso Robles animal facility could soon get names chosen by locals. more ›

While tigers have been MIA in L.A., mountain lions and bears have been surprising residents quite frequently. Two Burbank women discovered one of the wild cats enjoying their backyard on Wednesday afternoon. Mae Rondinella and her daughter, Linda, were watching television around 2:30pm when the visitor walked past their window. more ›

Two recent mountain lions sightings have been reported at Thomas F. Riley Wilderness Park in Orange County. The park is located near Wagon Wheel Elementary School. Park rangers have scanned the areas for tracks, notified school officials and put up signs to notify hikers of the possible presence of the native cats. more ›

California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is investigating the suspicious death of one of the last remaining male mountain lions in an important National Park Service (NPS) wildlife study. The 7-year-old animal, dubbed P-15, was discovered on September 11. Officials say he did not die of natural causes. more ›

A mountain lion kitten striking out on his own was killed Tuesday morning, while trying to cross the 405 just south of the Getty Center. The National Park Service has been following the movement of this mountain lion born in the Santa Monica Mountains in May 2010 and equipped with a GPS collar. They named him "P-18." more ›

Burbank residents, you have been warned (by Burbank police). Keep your eyes and ears open for mountain lions prowling your 'hood. One of the large felines was spotted near the Oakmont County Club in the 900 block of Country Club Drive around 9pm on Monday night, reports myFOXla. more ›

A mountain lion spotted repeatedly in a Hesperia neighborhood is shy, says residents, and scares easily when approached. KABC reports that the animal has been seen in backyards, and even out on the street while kids are riding their bikes. Because of his timidity, experts believe he's simply looking for food and water. more ›

Authorities are on the lookout for a mountain lion reportedly seen in Pacific Palisades. Around 11:43 p.m. on Wednesday, police were alerted to a large 150 to 250-pound cat near Temescal Canyon Road and Sunset Boulevard. Shortly after, officers thought they may had cornered the cougar at Palisades Charter High School, but reports indicate it was never captured by animal service officers. more ›

State investigators are looking into separate deaths of mountain lions in Southern California, according to the OC Register. A mountain lion being tracked via GPS collar by scientists was shot and killed in Trabuco Canyon on July 3rd. Department of Fish and Game are not releasing any details until the investigation has been completed, but the paper calls the deaths questionable. more ›

In less than a months time, rangers with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area area have captured and placed a GPS collar on a second mountain lion. Found Saturday morning in a trap set by National Park Service scientists around Malibu Springs, the approximately 2-year-old lion became the 14th to wear a tracking collar around its neck. At the end of July, a female with a similar age was found and collared. P14 and P13, respectively, have blood samples being analyzed by researchers at UCLA to determine connections, if any, to other lions studied in mountains. more ›

Just like in a recent episode of Weeds, deep within public lands are some major areas prime for cultivating marijuana. Yesterday, local and federal officials eradicated two sites, one in a state park and another on National Park land. Likely to be worth close to $10 million on the street, 2,088 marijuana plants were found in Malibu Creek State Park and another 1421 in Zuma Canyon. more ›

Since 2002, the National Park Service has been tracking Mountain Lions in the Santa Monica Mountains, studying their movements, pinpointing their ranges and observing how human development impacts their population. Twelve have been tracked in that time with some remarkable finds. more ›

Last month, a story floated around about a dog named Hoagie that saved his owners from a mountain lion in the Cleveland National Forest in Orange County. But soon after, state officials found that the mountain probably lion did not initiate the attack. more ›

After hearing about the unfortunate death of a mountain lion on the 5 Freeway this morning, we found another puma photo via the National Park Service. This time, it's good news. She, named P6, was tagged awhile ago by the Service, but her radio collar stopped working two years ago. more ›

Driving on the 5 freeway this morning in the Newhall Pass between Los Angeles and the Santa Clarita Valley, a Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority ranger spotted a dead mountain lion on the center divider near Calgrove Blvd. Presumably, it was hit trying to cross the freeway. more ›

There are about 30- to 35,000 bears in California, according to Department of Fish & Game officials. With that many, there's no doubt that stories like this morning's--a 300-pound bear wanders into a Camarillo apartment complex--are surprising. Yesterday around noon, two campers' dog and mountain lion dueled in the Cleveland National Forest outside of Santa Ana. Mountains lions usually want to keep to themselves and Fish & Game officials told the OC Register that they believe the mountain lion was only acting in self defense, therefore, they will not hunt the lion to put it down. If your curious about what to do in an encounter and how to properly live among them, the state has some good webpages about our local bears and mountain lions. more ›

When National Park Service employees in Thousand Oaks yesterday morning checked on the mountain lions they monitor via GPS in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, they discovered that one of them visited an unusual location. On Wednesday night, one was in the vicinity of the 405 Freeway and the Skirball Museum. more ›

On Wednesday night last week a 140-pound female mountain lion that had "just killed a dog and was charging at police," in the backyard of a residence near the edge of the Angeles National Forest was shot and killed by authorities on the scene. According to the Daily News, the police believe that this was the same mountain lion responsible for other area incidents, including another dog death in Arcadia and two attacks--including one death--on dogs in Glendora. more ›

Los Angeles Times reporter Francisco Vara-Orta was quick to jump on the case of an alleged sighting of a mountain lion in the Eagle Rock vicinity on the morning of May 2nd 2008. Local police had received calls just before 9:00 am pertaining to a mysterious large cat prowling the backyard of a house on the 5000 block of College View Avenue. Usually in these kind of cases, when authorities turn up there is no sign of the suspected animal, but on this occasion several officers caught a glimpse of the elusive felid which was seen fleeing close to 2479 Niagara Way. more ›

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Unconfirmed reports of a mountain lion on the loose in Eagle Rock have authorities on the move, searching house to house on the 5000 block of College View Ave. more ›

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