A mountain lion was killed in Boise early Thursday morning. And Ada County sheriff’s deputy shot the animal on the grounds of St. Alphonsus Medical Center on Curtis Road. The cougar was a juvenile and weighed about 80 pounds. Steve Nadeau with Idaho’s department of Fish and Game says mountain lions sometimes come into Boise in late summer when streams and pools in the hills dry up.
Steve Nadeau “When they’re up on the hillside they’ll look down into the valley, they’ll see deer; they’ll see the green lush vegetation. They’ll come down for a drink of water and they’ll start hunting deer that are in the valley or occasionally pick up some housecats.”
It’s not yet known if the cougar killed this morning is the same one reported near downtown Boise over the weekend, or if it’s connected to the sightings in Kuna last month.