Wild Instinct
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This cat is a big male.
Mountain lion, Puma concolor.
He’s old and weather-bleached, with a scarred face and a chewed ear, and shoulder muscles shifting like saddlebags under a thick beige pelt. Tan eyes. He pads along with slouching confidence. Swaying, like he’s had a couple.
This security video is surreal, and by now, almost a week old: The cat saunters northbound on the Coast Highway sidewalk in Laguna Beach, window-shopping, maybe, or checking his look in the storefront glass. He considers Diane’s Leather Boutique, the Hair Affair, Pacific Vibrations Surf Shop, from which a guy in a black hoodie and red Jams steps out, sees the mountain lion not six feet away, scrambles back inside, and slams the door behind him.
The cat moves up Coast Highway and off camera.
Here in the Orange County Sheriff’s Department headquarters, Detective Lew Gale studies the video. He’s a brawny man, half Acjacheme Indian, with a face like carved mahogany and unexpected gray eyes.