Here kitty, kitty. "Mountain Lion P-22 Hunkers Down Overnight in Los Feliz Home's Crawl Space" [View all]

[Cleita]

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Mountain-Lion-Los-Feliz-Home-Crawl-Space-299608641.html

Home security technicians encountered a whiskered intruder while installing equipment at a home in Los Angeles on Monday, the home's owner said.

They found famous mountain lion P-22 stuck in the home's crawl space, said Jason Archinaco, the owner of the home in the Los Feliz hills.

"It's got to be at least 150 pounds!" Archinaco said, looking at the giant cat lodged in the small space of his home.

&quot The technician) came face-to-face with it, and he was horrified, and who can blame him? My husband said he came running through the house white-faced," Archinaco's wife Paula said.

He said the city's animal control officers couldn't remove the wildcat because it's too large. California Fish and Wildlife had attempted to coax him out with a tennis ball launcher in the hope he would run back to the mountains, however it failed to work. They even tried shooting a few beanbag rounds into the area in an attempt to get him out.

As of 7 a.m. Tuesday the animal remained under the house, despite the area being cleared overnight in an attempt to let him come out on his own free from distractions.

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Why would he want to run back into the mountains with all those rattle snakes and coyotes, when he found a nice home? It seems our human need for real estate development with little regard for the needs of wildlife that are evolving to co-exist in our spaces, hence hot tub bears and now house kitty cougars.