killed the cat

Evidently we had a young mountain lion wander into town in Palo Alto yesterday, and after a day long search where they found the young cat up a tree, chased there by a black lab, they decided he was such a threat that they couldn't wait for the tranq gun and so shot him fromthe tree. And he was such a serious threat that when he fell from the tree he tried to hide. I heard kids on KGO this morning saying they could have found another way. Evidently kids are the only ones that still try to find a compassionate solution in a crisis.