KENTON, Okla. A state game warden has killed
a mountain lion that was attacking livestock in
the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Wildlife officials
believe this is the first confirmed case of a
lion killing livestock in Oklahoma.
Wildlife Department spokesman Micah
Holmes says a farmer near Kenton in far western
Cimarron County has complained of a lion killing
his goats. Holmes says the man called last week
and said he was watching the lion kill a goat.
A game warden went to the farm Friday and
killed the lion after seeing it return to the
goat pen.
There have been other reports of mountain
lions attacking livestock in the state but
Holmes says it usually turns out to be coyotes
or dogs.
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