Mountain lion captured near Brentwood Country Club after evading wildlife officials
An endangered mountain lion that was recently captured in a wildlife officer’s car was being held at the Brentwood Country Club after escaping from a wildlife officer. The mountain lion was initially captured because it had escaped from the wildlife officer at the Club. (Courtesy of the Noshall County Sheriff’s Office)
This story is part of a series about mountain lion attacks.
An endangered mountain lion that was recently captured in a wildlife officer’s car was being held at the Brentwood Country Club after escaping from a wildlife officer.
The mountain lion, which was being held at the Club, was initially captured because it had escaped from the wildlife officer at the Club.
“My husband was in the back seat of the officer’s patrol car and he looked in my lap at what we had in the car and he said, ‘It’s a mountain lion,’” said the woman who called 911.
A wildlife officer had been alerted and set up to monitor the area for the mountain lion but lost sight of it.
The woman said she didn’t know the mountain lion was in the club until she was walking into the lobby of the building, after she had called the Club, to find it gone.
She said the mountain lion was not trapped in the Club but was simply hiding from the wildlife officer.
“He said, ‘You’re out in the middle of the road with these dogs and you’ve got a mountain lion running underneath one of them somewhere and they’re going to rip it apart,’” she said.
Once released, the woman said the mountain lion did not run away, but it was taken to the Wildlife Section at the Noshall County Sheriff’s Office.
She said if the mountain lion had been taken to the Wildlife Section, it would have been taken to a veterinarian because it was starving.
“It was starving,” she said.
She said the animal had been trapped under one of the front tires of a parked