Daly City Resident Has Close Call With Visiting Mountain Lion

“I LOOKED UP AND IT WAS LOOKING RIGHT DOWN AT ME, THE MOUNTAIN LION.”

Residents are on high alert after scores of mountain lion sightings along the Peninsula. In Daly City, one woman came face-to-face with a cougar Monday morning. https://t.co/WiSwYjKWj5

— Maria Cid Medina (@MariaKPIX) January 11, 2022

A Daly City woman had quite a terrifying encounter in her backyard. Here’s more from KPIX TV in San Francisco:

On Monday morning, Laurie Golub came face-to-face with a cougar in her backyard. She said her dogs were barking at a tree in the rear of her Daly City home, which she thought was just another raccoon or cat.

“I noticed this big tail hanging down and I was like, ‘Oh, my God what is that,’” said Golub. “I looked right up and it was looking right down at me, the mountain lion. It was very scary. I screamed a couple things I won’t repeat, and I ran back inside.”

Daly City police warned residents to be cautious leaving their homes as they kept a close eye on the cougar with the help of a drone. The mountain lion was eventually spooked by the sound of a lawnmower and went into another yard.

KPIX also had video of the encounter.