LAS VEGAS (KTNV): Some Las Vegas residents are on high alert after seeing a mountain lion in their neighborhood, near Hualapai Way and Desert Inn Road.
According to neighbors, the mountain lion has been seen several times over the weekend.
13 Action News obtained images of the mountain lion bell captured Friday night.
“By three-thirty this morning I was about to talk to people and say you just have to keep your pets inside and your kids because they don’t just go out at night,” says Patty Fairchild, who lives in the area.
Wildlife, like mountain lions and coyotes, is not an everyday spectacle, but it is not uncommon for them to enter the city.
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“They may be out of the day, so keep in mind where you are,” Fairchild says.
In July 2020, a mountain lion was seen walking from yard to yard in the summer area west of I-215.
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The crew were able to locate that lion and reassure him.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife says that if you see a mountain lion in a residential area immediately dial 911.
If a mountain lion continues to lodge in a residential area, the Wildlife Department will first try to release it back into the wild.
If that doesn’t work, the lion can be euthanized.