The dog chased the mountain lion up a tree, where the cat stayed for nearly seven hours. "She just went bolting and all of a sudden there was a mountain lion in our tree," said Danielle Conners, the dog's owner. The 8-year-old whippet beagle mix spotted the mountain lion hiding under a truck and took off after him.

The cat was scared up a tree by one of the neighborhood's small dogs before getting tranquilized and relocated by wildlife officials.

A mountain lion stuck in a tree at a Tustin home made for a unique call to Orange County police, fire and wildlife agencies on Monday, Nov. 18. The mountain lion was captured and eventually relocated to a remote forest area after a family noticed their dog had chased a “cat” up a tree, the Tustin Police Department said.

First responders rescued a young mountain lion from a tree after he wandered into the yard of an Orange County home on Monday afternoon

First responders in California helped rescue a cat from a tree — except it “wasn’t just any cat,” police said. Instead, it was a mountain lion. The young male mountain lion wandered into the yard of a family in Tustin, southeast of Los Angeles, on Nov. 18, the Tustin Police Department wrote in a Facebook post.