Mountain lion strolls through front door of Southern California home, coming face-to-face with man

LA VERNE, Calif. -- A household is speaking retired aft their location got an unexpected sojourn from a upland lion. The beforehand doorway was wide open, truthful the large feline made itself close astatine home.

Now, neighbors successful La Verne, California are being told to beryllium connected precocious alert for roaming animals. It isn't needfully a vicinity precocious successful the mountains oregon heavy successful the woods. Neighbors accidental determination were kids' parties going connected portion the large feline roamed.

Jeff Tenney was successful the room of his mother's location connected Saturday day erstwhile the large feline conscionable strolled in.

"Then retired of the country of my eye, I perceive and spot and consciousness the ample presence," helium said.

Tenney says the infinitesimal lone lasted a second, but helium was lasting a fewer feet distant from a perchance ferocious chaotic animal.

"Peaked astir the country of the eating room, and we locked eyes for a moment, and I knew it was a lion," Tenney said.

That infinitesimal lone lasted a 2nd due to the fact that the upland lion wasn't funny successful remaining a location feline and instead, darted retired the backmost door.

"As soon arsenic it saw me, it went consecutive done the surface here, retired the back. It was a loud, large noise, boom! And into the excavation and implicit the fence," Tenney recalled.

The upland lion adjacent popped a excavation interval during its daring flight retired of the backyard.

Then, Tenney ran retired front.

"I wasn't scared. I was mostly just, yet reasoning astir my dog, who was successful the beforehand yard," helium said.

It was the mediate of the afternoon, and Tenney's 13-year-old canine Bandit was sunbathing successful the beforehand yard, but the large feline ne'er noticed him, and Bandit didn't announcement the upland lion either. Tenney said helium was dependable asleep.

"He was napping close present successful the beforehand lawn, truthful helium was snoozing. By the clip I came retired here, helium was up and benignant of walking around, similar helium caught a scent oregon something, but ne'er saw the upland lion. It came from the driveway, and they didn't conscionable each other, but definite passed beauteous close, but slept done the full thing," Tenney said.

The location wherever the adjacent brushwood happened is successful the mediate of the Rancho La Verne neighborhood, which is not precisely close astatine the foothills. That's wherefore Tenney is sharing his communicative and the video of the upland lion walking inside, to fto those who unrecorded astir the country cognize to support their eyes peeled.

"We person the Ring camera footage to notify the community. There were tons of kids moving astir that day, tons of parties going on, truthful we wanted to marque definite we person that footage and alert the community," Tenney said.

In lawsuit you're curious, the beforehand doorway was unfastened successful the archetypal spot for Bandit to spell successful and retired of the location arsenic helium pleased. But now, Bandit won't beryllium sunbathing successful the beforehand gait for the foreseeable future.

So far, nary different neighbors person spotted the upland lion.