Chihuahuas Confront Cougar in SoCal Garage

[CatWoman]

LOL!!

Fiesty!!

SAGE, Riverside County -- A woman got the surprise of her life when she walked into her garage to see why her dogs were barking. She found a full-grown mountain lion.

Ana Lee Spray, 23, says her three toy chihuahuas were barking so loudly that it woke her up Saturday morning. She couldn't figure out what was wrong, and got up to check on the dogs. When she saw the animals standing guard at the opening of the garage, Spray investigated further.

She ran into her daughter's bedroom, which has a window that looks into the garage, and quickly got the answer staring back at her.

The chihuahuas, which weigh about three pounds each, had cornered the mountain lion. She says the big cat appeared to be angry and began hissing at her and foaming at the mouth.

Spray quickly called 911 and then grabbed her video camera to record a few pictures of the cornered cougar.

The pint-sized puppies refused to back off, and kept barking for about 45 minutes until two Riverside County Sheriff's deputies arrived at Spray's home in the 3900 block of San Ignacio Road.

"When they saw the dogs they said `These little things?' When they saw the mountain lion their jaws dropped," Spray said. "They radioed, `This is a full-size mountain lion and it is not happy to see us.' "

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-garage-cougar,0,224308.story

[MADem]

1. BRAVO, little dogs, BRAVO. What lionhearts!!! nt

[Taverner]

2. Oh, I thought Tinkerbell was fighting with Kathy Hilton

Pa-dah-PUMP!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Chihuahuas are all uppity since they made that movie (that my boyfriend made me watch).

[MineralMan]

4. I'm surprised the cougar didn't just get annoyed by the

little rat dogs and leave in disgust.

[Donnachaidh]

5. not surprised -- chihuahuas think they are rottweilers

Mine is half chi and half poodle, and she's flown off the couch at full-sized people when she thought my son was in danger. They are tough little twinkie dogs.

[Xipe Totec]

6. pound for pound, they are. n/t

[Recursion]

9. Chi's (and poodles) were originally hunting breeds

Some of them still have the instincts.

[damntexdem]

7. Ai, Chihuahua!

And I guess the puma had no sense of huma. ;-)

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. They usually don't

Oh wait.... we're talking about the actual predatory kitteh here, aren't we? :evilgrin:

[xchrom]

8. the Indignity!

if i had been that cougar -- i would have left in a huff -- or a cab.

[Cleita]

11. Chihuahuas think they are Great Danes. They don't back off of any danger.

One of the neighborhood chihauhaus long ago cornered by mom in our house and she couldn't leave until she got the neighbor to come over and get his dog. For some reason or the other the dog thought our front yard was his and she didn't belong there.

[bertman]

12. Maybe that cop who shot the miniature wiener dog the other day wasn't so stupid after all.

[Politicalboi]

13. As a kid we had a Chihuahua

And he thought he was king shit. I saw him chase a German Shepard away from our trash cans. The German Shepard had it's tail between his legs and kept looking back like WTF was that. LOL! Anyway it took the cops 45 minutes to make it to her house? That lion could have eaten the dogs and killed the women or anyone near by. I hope it was released back into the wild. I heard it was on TV when I saw the story but who knows.

[rrneck]

14. It's not the size of the dog in the fight

it's the size of the fight in the dog.

[villager]

15. authorities pretty weasly and evasive on whether they killed the cougar or not

n/t

[blogslut]

16. They're tough little dogs

I dig them.

Poor kitty.