London, Europe Brief News – Hollywood’s best known mountain lion has been charged of being increasingly “agitated”.
The wild cat P-22, famous for roaming through residential areas, frequently appeared in CCTV. The report came only a few weeks after a fatal attack on a pet chihuahua.
Authorities had become alarmed about his increasingly “agitated” behaviour, say reports.
However, nothing has been disclosed about what will happen to the cougar.
The National Park service confirmed that Hollywood’s lion was responsible for killing a chihuahua that was being walked in the Hollywood hills last month.
Sarah Picchi, a Los Feliz resident who found P-22, told the Los Angeles Times that Fish and Wildlife Department officers rang at her front gate and said: “You have a lion in your back yard.”
Ms Picchi said he was tranquilised on Monday morning. Officials said he was in a stable condition after his sedation.
The local feline celebrity was part of a National Park service study. He often appeared in security cameras near LA’s Griffith Park, a wilderness and picnic area.
Typically he would only hunt deer and coyotes, but there were growing concerns following the chihuahua attack and another suspected dog attack in the Silver Lake neighbourhood this month.
