


It was a different kind of “Cougar Town.”
While generally seen as elusive and shy, pumas are apparently no stranger to human spaces.
Spine-tingling footage captured the moment that a “pack” of mountain lions prowled through a Colorado neighborhood at night following a string of pet deaths in the state.
“There it was, five mountain lions walking through my side yard,” Carolyn Andrews told CBS News of the wildlife sighting, which occurred Saturday around 11 p.m. in the mountain town of Silverthorne.
The puma parade was caught on her Ring doorbell camera, a device generally used to spot potential human intruders.
While Andrews’ security cam had captured bear and moose before, this was the first time it had filmed these elusive feline hunters.
The footage shows the cougar quintet padding their way through her snowy front yard like a gang of gun-slingers in an Old Western movie.
CBS refers to the cat-valcade as a “pack,” which is likely incorrect given that the predators are “solitary unless mating or parenting,” according to the Mountain Lion Foundation.
In fact, these alpine felines will fight other lions, sometimes to the death, to defend their territories, “which average 100 square miles in size,” per the site.
It’s far more likely that the gang was a mother cougar with a litter of four cubs.
Either way, the sighting set spines a tingling throughout Silverthorne.
“It [the prevalence of mountain lions] is a concern if you have pets or even young children,” warned Andrews.
Due to the potential risk, Colorado Parks and Wildlife implores people living in lion country to “closely supervise children whenever they play outdoors.”
“Make sure children are inside before dusk and not outside before dawn,” they warn.
The conservation org also urges pet owners to bring their critters inside at night, or if they do leave them out, to make sure that they’re in a kennel with a “secure top.”
This sighting comes after mountain lions — which can grow up to eight feet long and weigh over 200 pounds — killed 15 dogs in less than a month in the town of Nederland.
According to a tracker map created by a resident, a total of 23 canines had either vanished, been attacked or were killed by the big cats from April 4 to December 9, 2022.
And it’s not just pets and kiddies that have to fear.
Last month, a cougar clawed at a man’s head as he and his wife were relaxing in a hot tub on a rental property in Chaffee County.