BIGGER KITTIES ADD NEW RISK TO ANIMAL CONTROL
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:
ARCADIA, Calif.––California Fish &
Game warden Mark Jeeter shot a puma pointblank
on January 28 in a suburban yard.
Once again bloodshed underscored the
warning ANIMAL PEOPLE issued in July 1996
that former pet pumas, not wild pumas, are
forming a dangerous fringe population around
many major North American cities.
Recounted Sergeant Endel Jurman,
field services department supervisor for the
Pasadena Humane Society and SPCA, “My officer
was standing behind the warden when the lion
was shot.” The warden, the PHS/SPCA, and
Arcadia police had all responded late at night to a
homeowner’s complaint that a puma was eating
his 40-pound dog.