Just to clear up any misunderstandings — and hopefully stave off more of those “Would a tiger and a house cat be good friends?” questions — cats aren’t down with each other just because they’re cats.
You won’t see a jaguar high-fiving a jaguarundi like “Sup bro? Hunt anything delicious lately?”
And you sure as hell won’t see your cat shooting the shit with a puma on your back porch, trading war stories about taking down prey.
Nope. To the puma, your cat is the prey.
That’s what happened early on Thursday morning in Boulder Creek, California, where footage from a Ring doorbell cam shows a puma — also known as a mountain lion or cougar — hovering over something partially obscured by a planter. There’s a flash of domestic kitty eyes for the briefest instant, then more noise followed by the puma walking away with the cat in its jaws.

Sue Ann Sheely, whose camera caught the attack, said it’s the second time she’s seen a local cat fall victim to a cougar. She sent the footage to a local news station so her neighbors will finally wise up and bring their cats indoors.
Like coyotes, pumas aren’t breeding in greater numbers or suddenly intruding on human territory: We’re the intruders, chipping away at the wild cat’s habitat with each new housing development and strip mall we build. The majestic-looking cats die in unusually high numbers when roads cut through their ranges, and simply brushing up against a human neighborhood is often enough to get them shot.
With fractured habitats and fewer prey animals to hunt, pumas will sometimes turn to domestic animals as prey. Attacks on humans are exceedingly rare, and pumas normally do their best to steer clear of humans.
Previously, we’ve looked at other reasons to keep your cat indoors: Reason #127 To Keep Your Cats Indoors: Bad Guys, Reason #246 To Keep Your Cats Indoors: Coyotes, and Reason #001 To Keep Your Cats Indoors: Traffic.

Scary… we had an mountain lion walking around here a few years ago. It left big paw prints on our deck. Big cats are definitely a danger to small cats.
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I didn’t realize how big mountain lions are. They’re on average larger than leopards! That’s crazy. Yet they are not considered “big cats” because they don’t fit in the genus panthera and they cannot roar. Strange.
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Here in California, there are signs on the walking trails warning about Mountain Lions. It tells you what to do if you encounter one. You are supposed to make yourself look Big and Confident. LOL. I’m only 5’2″ and 93 lbs so it is a good thing I don’t go hiking or walking on the trails like a lot of folks around here do. 😀
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lol yeah going alone would not be the best idea. Most of the guides say the best thing to do is be loud, so the cougar knows you’re not prey. Mostly, they are looking to get the jump on prey animals.
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