{"id":3311,"date":"2018-08-11T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2018-08-11T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T13:26:13","slug":"video-mountain-lion-breaks-into-home-kills-family-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/08\/11\/video-mountain-lion-breaks-into-home-kills-family-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO:  Mountain lion breaks into home, kills family cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0mountain lion crawled into a Colorado home and killed a family\u2019s pet house cat and fled into a canyon after wildlife officers shot it with non-lethal bean bag rounds to force it outside.<br \/>\nThe prowling cougar came through an unlocked screen door at a home in Boulder in the Colorado foothills late Thursday night while the occupants were not home, Jason Clay, spokesman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, said in a statement.<br \/>\nThe residents, who were not named, discovered the mountain lion inside their residence when they arrived home, and called police who then summoned the wildlife agency, Clay said.<br \/>\nWildlife officers decided the best course of action was to chase the cougar out the front door by firing the bean bag rounds at it, Clay said, adding that at least one round hit the animal.<\/p>\n<aside>\u201cOfficers saw the lion run up the street and believed it went up into the foothills near the Boulder Canyon vicinity,\u201d the statement said.<\/aside>\n<p>The carcass of the house cat was found by responding officers, Boulder Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kristi Peterson told Reuters.<br \/>\nThe cat\u2019s owner told Denver TV station KDVR in a tearful interview that she had owned her cat, named Klondike, for 10 years.<br \/>\n\u201cShe (Klondike) was difficult to live with \u2013 she wasn\u2019t grateful for anything \u2013 but she was mine and it\u2019s hard (to see) the end she had,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 618px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3311-1\" width=\"618\" height=\"1099\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-11-20-33-22-lion-.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-11-20-33-22-lion-.mp4\">http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-11-20-33-22-lion-.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0mountain lion crawled into a Colorado home and killed a family\u2019s pet house cat and fled into a canyon after wildlife officers shot it with non-lethal bean bag rounds to force it outside. The prowling cougar came through an unlocked screen door at a home in Boulder in the Colorado foothills late Thursday night while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}