Us confronting nature and vice versa

An email was sent out two days by our neighborhood co-op president that a neighbor had seen a mountain lion crossing the street toward the greenbelt at around dawn.

So yesterday, I was on the phone with a friend of mine who said that her cat was missing for a couple of days and she was thinking of going to the animal shelter to see if it had been picked up. It was an outdoor cat, but generally stuck close to home.

"Uh oh," I said, "Did you get that email?"

She hadn't, so I opened it up and read that not only was it crossing the street that intersects her street, it was right by her street.

She called the man who reported it and he told her that yes, the cougar was carrying a cat.

Awwwww :(

He was 14 but no one thought it was his time. So RIP, kitty.