A cougar in California bit a small dog while walking: the incident was caught on video

Reports say a cougar, which is being tracked by the National Park Service, is back in the spotlight after the service said the animal was likely responsible for the murder of a domestic dog in California's Hollywood Hills. USAToday.

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CCTV footage shows a cougar walking through a residential area and pouncing on a chihuahua named Piper. The attack took place on November 18 when a dog walker was walking his dog.

Piper was one of two leashed dogs the man walked.

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Daniel Jimenez, Piper's owner, said that the night Piper was killed, he was celebrating his daughter's birthday.

He recalled receiving a strange message from a man who was walking his dog. It said that the cougar "attacked and killed the dog".

“We thought it was a joke, but it turned out to be true and we were just shocked,” Jimenez said. — My wife and I got Piper in 2014. We rescued her and she was just the sweetest dog. "We are just devastated by the loss of our little dog."

Although no one has positively identified the big cat, the National Park Service said the animal that killed Piper was likely a P-22, one of several cougars tracked by the National Park Service using GPS collars.

According to the National Park Service website, P-22 is an 11-year-old male cougar who weighs around 55kg. The cougar spends most of its time in Griffith Park, one of the largest municipal parks with urban wilderness areas in the United States, located in the eastern part of the Santa Monica mountain range.

The presence of a big cat was first documented in early 2012 using a camera trap set up as part of the Griffith Park survey. Biologists trapped a cougar in 2012, put a lightweight radio tracking collar on it, and named it P-22.

P-22 made headlines across the country several times, including once in 2014 when she developed scabies, which researchers successfully treated.

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In 2015, the presence of this cougar near a home in the Los Angeles area adjacent to Griffith Park became a live event as local authorities tried to force it to leave. When the turmoil subsided, the cougar left in the early dark morning. And in 2016, she was suspected of killing a koala at the Los Angeles Zoo.

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