Hello, fire department? There's a cougar in my tree

Animals In California, has the fire department have a rather special operation to rescue her. It happens often that the spuitgasten have to take a cat out of a tree to deliver, but in the desert town of Hesperia went yesterday to a little more of a failed instance. A mountain lion had settled in for the mess and was 15 metres from the ground in a tree, getting stuck.

The frightened resident was in his yard working when he suddenly the cougar above him in one of his trees saw. The firefighters of San Bernardino proven that they are not easily frightened: the animal was first sedated, and then with a rope taken down again. Then if the mountain lion again come into the wild, sounds on Facebook.

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Cougars are generally harmless to humans. For the past 100 years have been in North America less than 20 fatal attacks with this feline counted, reports CNN. Whether by coincidence or not, recently fought an American in Colorado, however, still a life and death struggle with a cougar, when a young animal to him attacked while jogging. The 31-year-old Travis Kauffman strangled the animal with his bare hands, himself, he came there with a total of 28 stitches.