Natalie Riggs was sickened by the sight of the carcasses of cherished pets ravaged by a mountain lion. Blood streaked the ground in the pen where her two sheep, Blanca and Blackie, had their throats slashed. Blanca's hindquarters had been eaten. Blackie was killed for no apparent reason. "It was a scene of almost incomprehensible violence," said Riggs, 41, a real estate agent and yoga teacher, shivering at the memory of the mid-January attack at her 5-acre ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains. It was one in the growing number of attacks over the last year that is changing the relationship between humans and mountain lions in Southern California. Dakota Semler Mel Melcon / Los...
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