The California Department of Fish and Wildlife tracked the roughly 90-pound cat after it was seen Saturday in a backyard tree and tranquilized the animal before moving it.
A female mountain lion spotted in Simi Valley was captured and relocated to a more suitable habitat over the weekend, wildlife officials said.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife tracked the roughly 90-pound cat after it was seen in a tree in a backyard in the 600 block of Laguna Drive on Saturday. “We darted it in one yard,” Fish and Wildlife spokesman Tim Daly said in an email Monday. “It ran into another yard before the drugs took effect.”
After being tranquilized, the approximately 3-year-old cougar was tagged and released outside the city.The mountain lion was initially spotted around 9:20 a.m., prompting the Simi Valley Police Department to issue a temporary warning to residents to keep children and small animals indoors. No people or pets were harmed, officials said.
Simi Valley is no stranger to the big cats. In December, officials and residents said mountain lions attacked two dogs, killing one, and
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