Mountain Lion Found, Tranquilized After Wandering In San Francisco Neighborhoods

One of the more surreal sights during the Covid pandemic was in San Francisco’s empty streets, which brought out coyotes roaming around and mostly having the City to themselves. Now, as the above video states, despite San Francisco’s residents back to more normal times, a mountain lion found itself in the heart of the City by the Bay.

Here are some details from ABC Bay Area:

Animal Care & Control and Fish & Wildlife crews have been out at California and Octavia Street, where they found the big cat cornered near an apartment building.

Officials say the mountain lion was behind a black fence in a tight area between two buildings. They eventually tranquilized him in order to get him out safely.

“They’re going to prepare to tranquilize the animal, and it’s more likely than not that it will come out of its hiding spot. I think it’s possible that we’re going to see the animal coming down the side of the building,” San Francisco Supervisor Stephen Sherrill said.

Mountain lion sightings, and sadly, attacks, have become commonplace throughout California in recent years, but this was a very unlikely sighting in the heart of San Francisco.