Family’s dog chasing large mountain lion through California yard caught on video

Her eyes weren’t lion.

A California girl couldn’t imagine her eyes when she appeared out her again window and noticed her canine Rocco chasing a big mountain lion by means of her yard on Friday.

“I used to be having a Bible research in our rec room. My buddy appeared out and stated, ‘Oh, your canine are taking part in,’” Sandy Ali of Morada told KCRA over the weekend.

“And I stated, ‘I solely have one canine.’”

Ali ran exterior and noticed the big cat leap right into a tree.

“It simply, in a single leap, was up within the tree so rapidly,” she instructed the native NBC Information affiliate station.

She dialed 911 and emergency personnel from a number of companies got here to her yard to attempt to seize and relocate the mountain lion, who remained within the tree for hours, in accordance with the outlet.

The primary responders tried to tranquilize the wild animal nevertheless it was capable of leap into a close-by discipline and escape, she stated.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Workplace stated the large cat was not harmed and ran off.

The sheriff’s workplace warned Morada residents to pay attention to the mountain lion’s presence Friday, including that the highly effective feline is just not believed to be aggressive or a hazard to the general public.

Nonetheless, the workplace stated locals ought to preserve their pets inside and attempt to restrict their very own time outdoor as a precaution.

Ali later found surveillance video footage of her Rottweiler bravely chasing after the large cat.

The Morada native stated she’s by no means seen a mountain line within the neighborhood in all of the years she lived there, and a neighbor additionally stated its go to to the flat residential space was very shocking and sudden, KCRA reported.

Their shock was echoed by social media customers replying to the sheriff’s warning posted to X, previously Twitter.

“Is that this for actual?” one man requested incredulously.

The large cat stays at giant, and there have been no reported sightings since Ali’s canine took it on.

“I believe Rocco proved he can care for himself,” she stated.