Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Yes, I live in Los Angeles County, and my street in Burbank is a micron from North Hollywood, which is part of the actual City of Los Angeles. So that makes the area somewhat urban.
At the same time, Burbank is girded by a mountain range. My neighborhood houses opossums and tree rats, but it’s the mountains that give us owls, the occasional vulture, rattlesnakes, coyotes — and mountain lions. Which we’ve been seeing a lot more of recently, as noted in this news story. Where is Kenneth Road, site of a recent mountain lion incident? It’s the road I lived on from 1988 to 1991. Where is Country Club Drive? Not too far from the next placed I lived, from 1991 to 1996. Many times I came home at 2 or 3 in the morning and found a coyote running down the street or even on my front lawn.
Maybe the next time my family and I go hiking up in those mountains we’ll take a… what? What does one carry along in case of a mountain lion attack? What was Snagglepuss afraid of? (Other than Bert Lahr suing him?)
August 30th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
I adore Snagglepuss. He’s brave, and understands stage directions. There’s more, but I won’t go there. I remember all of these locations, and another one just up Kenneth Road that turned out to be mythic. I would have loved to have seen a coyote or mountain lion, but as the contributor below the article has conditioned, not at too close a distance.