![]() After an uproar, the community’s management backed away from the idea. The Villages came under fire last year when the development’s administration considered hiring a professional hunter to thin a deer herd fond of grazing in the protected environment, which includes two golf courses along with 2,500 homes and condos hugging the foothills. The presence of the mountain lion in a housing community reflects the tension between wildlife and humans as development encroaches on wildlife habitat. After residents told the Mercury News on Tuesday they heard at least five shots, a police spokesman acknowledged several shots had been fired. ![]() San Jose police said Monday they had killed the mountain lion with one shot. “It was an unfortunate situation,” Fish & Game spokesman Steve Martarano said. Someone would have been available in San Jose during the week, Fish & Game said. San Jose’s animal control, which also was called to the gated community, said they don’t have a tranquilizer that works on mountain lions.Īnd Fish & Game, which had consulted with police by phone, said the closest warden with a tranquilizing gun available on Saturday would have been about 250 miles away in Redding. San Jose police said they had no choice, after waiting an hour and a half for California Fish & Game to try to find a warden with a tranquilizer gun.
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