Colorado Man Wakes Up to a Mountain Lion Eating an Elk on Front Porch

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Colorado Man Wakes Up to a Mountain Lion Eating an Elk on Front Porch

BY PRODUCER WIGNZ
January 9, 2022 in Outdoors, Trending

Charles Zelenka has lived in his Glenwood Springs home for almost 20 years, and for the first time in his 17 years living there Charles woke up at 2 a.m. to a loud banging outside his house. He assumed it was the bears trying to break into his bear-proof dumpster, which is common.

But after looking out his window he was shocked to see, “an elk on my front porch! I could see it kicking its front legs. I was like, What the hell happened? I couldn’t figure it out.”

“I was just about ready to turn and go out the door, and a mountain lion popped up from underneath this thing,” Zelenka continued. “So I grabbed my phone—I’m in my skivvies, I’ve just gotten out of bed—and start recording.”

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[SYFROYH]

1. After gourging on the elk's organs that cat looks stoned its so full.

[tblue37]

2. And like a cat, he walks off & leaves his mess for the human servants to clean up.

[Botany]

3. Whatever the lion wants let him or her have it.

[Ocelot II]

4. A cat eating a mouse on my porch was unsettling enough...

[LakeArenal]

5. I would drag the elk out to the yard and leave it

[EYESORE 9001]

6. Make good choices

Getting into a game of tug-of-war with a mountain lion just doesn’t seem prudent.

[LakeArenal]

7. Not while it's there. I see a huge problem in that once a prey animal finds a spot

They will return to check the spot.

Whether they find good or not.