The mountain lion has been a protected species in this state ever since it was hunted almost to extinction by people with more money than sense-you can’t kill it unless you can prove you were attacked-if you choose to live in a remote area, as I do, you really need to learn how to protect your pets and property. The mountain lions do not go after livestock behind game fencing-likely because here near the river, there are plenty of deer and small game to eat. But a pet behind an ordinary yard fence is a meal of opportunity for predators...
By the way-if the population of mountain lions reaches an over-saturation point, there wikl be a season on them like any other animal with a healthy population that is stable-it is already that way in some Northern states, and there is a wolf season in Alaska-that is sensible, sustainable wildlife management-Cali goes too far the other way, which unbalances the predator/prey population...