Elusive predator limps along neighborhood sidewalk in Colorado town. See the video
Wild video shows an elusive predator “casually” walking along a sidewalk in a Colorado neighborhood.
Then the person filming from inside a car notes that it’s injured as they ride along beside it in the Boulder residential area, video shared to Facebook shows.
“That is a cougar just walkin’ down the side of the street,” Evan Price said in the video. “It looks injured. It’s totally limping. Dude, that’s insane.”
The mountain lion appears to limp when it steps with its left paw, the video shows. It limps along the sidewalk passing through the flood of street lights before it turns a corner and heads toward a car parked on the street in front of homes in the neighborhood.
Price told several people in the comments on the video that he had reported the sighting to animal control and the agency said there was nothing they could do.
“Because it didn’t have a broken bone sticking out, bad trauma, nor was it bleeding anywhere…by the time Animal Control would have gotten to the sight where we were at, the animal would have been gone as well,” he explained. “So many factors play into scenarios like this. Human help is usually pretty far out of reach unless there is immediate danger to any human life or the kitty is severely injured and can’t help itself.”
Still, one of the people said they felt concerned the animal was “just meandering through a neighborhood.”
“I mean, when we have built our communities so large, neighborhoods are bound to cross into their territory and things can overlap,” Price said. “You would be surprised on how often these type of cats are now forced into our communities to hunt and look for food. This is not uncommon at all.”
Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed that to KDVR, adding that because the mountain lion’s mobility is not affected, intervention isn’t needed.
Mountain lions “have proven to be adaptable and can live on lands adjacent to cities as long as they have ample prey and places to rest and hunt,” the city of Boulder said on its website.
The animal has been a part of the ecosystem on the front range of the Rocky Mountains for thousands of years, and because they’re so territorial, removing or relocating them from cities “does not reduce potential conflict.”
“Rather, the focus is on building education and awareness about lions in the community,” the website says. “Relocation and removal of lions from the city is reserved for individual animals that pose a direct threat to humans through abnormal or aggressive behavior.”
One person commented saying they felt bad for the injured animal.
“Poor baby,” they said.
Another noticed how big the cougar was.
“Real big kitty,” Price agreed.
“Kids costumes are getting so realistic this Halloween season,” someone joked.
This story was originally published November 1, 2024 at 11:01 AM with the headline "Elusive predator limps along neighborhood sidewalk in Colorado town. See the video."
