What are you talking about?'" Reyes recalled. Come to find out that just about 20 yards from their door was a 100-pound mountain lion in the branches of a tree nearly 20 yards from their home ...

“One mountain lion, an adult, may have a home range of 100 and in some cases 200 square miles,” he said. “And usually one male will overlap with the home range of four to five females.

Behind the big cat is the family’s dead house cat, freshly killed by the 120-pound mountain lion. Inside, the girl’s mother frantically yells through the glass panes to scare the cougar away ...