A mountain lion was euthanized after it swatted an 11-year-old girl in the face Wednesday evening, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced.
BUENA VISTA, Colo. – A mountain lion was euthanized after it swatted an 11-year-old girl in the face Wednesday evening, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced.
When the girl opened the wooden hen house, a mountain lion was inside and swatted her in the face, leaving a small puncture wound on her cheek, according to CPW. The girl was treated at a Chaffee County hospital. “Mountain lion attacks are rare, but we can’t take any chances when any predator makes contact with a human,” Sean Shepherd, an area wildlife manager based in Salida, said in the release. “And we need to know if there was anything else going on with this lion, such as rabies, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza or some other infection that may have influenced its behavior. So it must be euthanized and tested.
In March, a mountain lion clawed the head of a man who was sitting in a hot tub of a rental house in Chaffee County. CPW said both of these incidents are"highly unusual" and"unfortunate coincidences. Nothing more."Man suffers minor injuries after mountain lion claws his head Saturday evening Óscar Contreras 1:40 PM, Mar 20, 2023 This is the 25th known attack of a mountain lion injuring a human in Colorado since 1990, according to CPW.
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