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Workers installing a security system in the home in the
affluent hillside Los Feliz neighborhood came face to face with
the animal known as P-22 on Monday afternoon, the Los Angeles
Times reported.
As television channel helicopters flew overhead, officials tried
to prod the cat with a long pole and get its attention with
tennis balls, before resorting to shooting at it with bean bags,
but to no avail, the paper said.
"I didn't think for two seconds that it was a mountain lion in
my house," house owner Jason Archinaco told the Times. "If
someone says Big Foot's in your house, you go, 'Yeah,' and you
stick your head in there," he added.
The cat became something of a small celebrity in the area after
it was discovered living in nearby Griffith Park about three
years ago. Wildlife officials said it must have crossed two
freeways to get there.
Local authorities named him P-22 and more than 1,400 people have
since signed up to "like" the "Friends of P22 Mountain Lion"
Facebook page.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Andrew
Heavens)
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