"Bad Kitty! Breaking And Entering Is Not Cool."
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:58 pm
Mountain Lion Breaks Into House

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A mountain lion ran into an El Paso County home Tuesday and then escaped through a window about an hour later.
Soon after he arrived home from work, Clifton Sanches said he heard his dogs barking loudly outside.
"I got up to shut the dogs up and a mountain lion came through my window, it came right through my screen door," Sanches told a Colorado Springs television station.
He went to a neighbor's house to call for help and he and sheriff's deputies waited outside the house. About an hour later, the big cat butted its head against a screened window before breaking through and running away. That scene was all caught on videotape.
Two mountain lions were spotted in Colorado Springs last month. Wildlife officials shot and killed one of the cats because it seemed lethargic and ailing.
"To have a mountain lion sighting is one thing. To have a mountain lion actually enter a structure is really rare," Colorado Division of Wildlife spokesman Michael Seraphin said.
Sheriff's deputies said they didn't have much choice but to wait for the lion to come out on its own.
