African Lion on the loose in my town
 

The lion was spotted in the ..er..richer neighborhood next to ours, basically across I-40 from me. My house backs up to the city lake and the woods connect to the woods where the lion was seen. There's over 5000 acres just around the lake alone. Driving yesterday by the lake I saw police, dogs and some NC Zoo trucks and appeared to be cage traps. The lake has a nice large trail around it and hundreds walk it daily. My son and his friends go into these woods daily to play, guess we'll have to watch it, cuz eventually that lion is gonna get hungry.

Most feel it has to be a pet that got loose or let loose.

http://www.wxii12.com/r-video/26069853/detail.html

You mean they dont know where it came from??

News story in link says mountain lion.

Not a clue. Lot of debate, paper said 22 people within this area has exotic cats of sorts, so I'm sure they're looking that way. Many just think it's a housecat, but I doubt it, looks like a lion to me.

Have to watch the clip, NC Zoo states African cat of sorts.

Mountain lions more west look different, bigger heads, thinker through the torso, ect...This cat has a thin upper torso, wider lower. Most mountains went out in the 50's although several have been spotted through the last years, one near Hanging Rock, about 30 minutes more west of this sighting. Also several sightings of black pumas in the mountains.

We do have a large Bobcat population in NC mountains all the way to the lower plains extending to Mt. Airy...but ain't a bob.

We have mountain lions here, never seen one--though a neighbor said he saw on in his yard a few years ago. We do have bobcats, though, saw one a couple weeks ago crossing the street (the one that likes to sit on my roof, lol).

Karl was right! We get stray cats, the rich get stray lions!

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My mother saw a mountain lion about a half mile from where I live, maybe even less. This is very strange as I live in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. My mother went and spoke to someone at the local nature center about it, and the ranger speculated that it was actually someone's pet.