Deputies responded to a reported break-in in Sonora on Sunday night and discovered a four-legged intruder. A mountain lion sneaked in through the open front door of a home in the 16000 block of Oakhaven Lane, the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office said. "After being spotted, he tried to make a run for it but ended up cornered in a bathroom," the sheriff's office said. Fish and Wildlife officers helped deputies coax the cougar out of a second-story bathroom window. In a video shared by the sheriff's office, officials can be heard pounding on the side of the house. Eventually, the animal leaps outside. "He did get a stern warning about the break-in before being released," the sheriff's office said. Wildlife officials don't consider mountain lion sightings near human habitats to be a threat as long as the animal isn't showing aggressive behavior toward people. If you do cross paths with a mountain lion, the sheriff's office recommends that you do the following: "Make noise, act defiant and not afraid, maintain eye contact, never run away, slowly create distance, and fight back if you’re attacked!"

Deputies responded to a reported break-in in Sonora on Sunday night and discovered a four-legged intruder.

A mountain lion sneaked in through the open front door of a home in the 16000 block of Oakhaven Lane, the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office said.


"After being spotted, he tried to make a run for it but ended up cornered in a bathroom," the sheriff's office said.

Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office

Fish and Wildlife officers helped deputies coax the cougar out of a second-story bathroom window. In a video shared by the sheriff's office, officials can be heard pounding on the side of the house. Eventually, the animal leaps outside.

"He did get a stern warning about the break-in before being released," the sheriff's office said.

Wildlife officials don't consider mountain lion sightings near human habitats to be a threat as long as the animal isn't showing aggressive behavior toward people.

If you do cross paths with a mountain lion, the sheriff's office recommends that you do the following: "Make noise, act defiant and not afraid, maintain eye contact, never run away, slowly create distance, and fight back if you’re attacked!"

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