BOULDER, Colo., May 15 (UPI) -- A 45-pound cougar was captured in a Boulder, Colo., neighborhood after killing a house cat.
The Boulder Daily Camera said the year-old cougar was pinned between the fences of two yards Saturday when wildlife officers closed in on the animal and shot it with a tranquilizer gun.
The lion probably will go to a wildlife rehabilitation facility for a year before it's released into the wild, said John Koehler, district wildlife manager for the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
Koehler said that coming across an occasional cougar is a risk Boulder residents take. "This is great lion habitat," he told the newspaper. "There are deer everywhere."
Last month, an adult mountain lion attacked a 7-year-old boy who was hiking with his family on Flagstaff Mountain. The boy suffered a broken jaw but is expected to make a full recovery, the newspaper said.
