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Karen Hammersmith was forced to fight off a mountain lion from attacking her 4-year-old French Bulldog.

It's not exactly a big secret that if you live in Wyoming there's at least a chance that your home will have wildlife nearby. But, one Jackson Hole family learned they had a very big mountain lion family that paid them a visit while they were sleeping.

When a Game and Fish biologist arrived on scene, the mountain lion was spooked and ran away

This has been a great year for trail cams. If I had a nickel for every bear, wolf, deer or elk I've seen prancing down our backwoods, I'd be way richer than I am not now. You can add mountain lions to the list as a southern Montana cam has captured a very big cat.

If you’re out in the wilds of Wyoming, this is always a possibility. A guy has just shared an encounter he had with a curious mountain lion. Fortunately, this one had a happy ending

The lion appeared healthy, Binfet said.

Residents are advised to put their pets inside and call law enforcement if they see the mountain lion.

Each of them admitted to shooting the lion and taking the carcass back to their vehicle.

Rock Springs resident Christian J. Cosby will pay over $5,000 in fines and have his hunting and fishing privileges suspended for two years, after pleading guilty to the intentional illegal taking of a bull elk in 2017 and taking a mountain lion with an illegal caliber firearm in 2018

Cosby reportedly lied to investigators about the area in which he took the elk.