Video shows mountain lion walking right onto front porch of SLO County home
It’s apparently been a busy time lately for mountain lions — and surveillance cameras — in Cambria.
Cambria’s Marine Terrace neighborhood had another mountain-lion sighting via one of those devices on Saturday.
“We had a visitor walking across our driveway right onto our front porch!” Cathleen Campe Scott posted on Nextdoor about their Arlo camera’s capture at 6:24 a.m.
“We’re used to seeing many deer, raccoons, cats (the household and neighborhood kind!) and foxes, but this was a surprise!!” she wrote.
Cathleen and Jon Scott’s home is on Warren Road, “backing up to the Fiscalini Ranch (Preserve),” she wrote later in a reply to The Tribune. They have “no pets, no bowls of food, water or anything. I don’t know what it (the mountain lion) was looking for, but we commonly have all sorts of animals go across our front porch for who knows what?”
Dawn Ellner’s Ring camera caught footage in July of a mountain lion climbing into her Cambria backyard.
Likewise, Anuj Aggarwal’s camera captured a video of another (or maybe the same?) puma in early August.
Wildlife officials advise keeping household pets indoors from before dusk to after dawn, and to not leave out food, water or anything else that might attract the wildcats. If you should find yourself facing down a mountain lion, bobcat or other wildlife, don’t turn and run. Instead, wave your arms, make yourself look big and make lots of noise as you slowly back away to safety.
This story was originally published September 5, 2023 at 10:51 AM.
