How sneaky is a mountain lion?

Question

At 4:30am, a mountain lion quietly walked into a couple's home and carried their labrador with its mouth out of the house and into the wilderness. At the time of the fatal attack, there were two dogs in the house. Why didn't the dogs hear the mountain lion?

My dog hears everything and any noise will awaken my dog.

Answer 1

How the h**l did it get in? Where was the door? lmao

Answer 2

Did this really happen? I'm not entirely sure why your dogs didn't hear the noise. If may have been because the mountain lion was too sneaky for them. Mountain lions are known to be very sneaky.  

Answer 3

Pretty god damned sneaky.

Figure being stalked by a wild animal, that spends every day in the woods, you're in it's home and it wants to eat you.  :)

Sleep tight.

Answer 4

Not only did the dogs not hear or see it, they didnt smell it either!!!  I agree with DJ.  Those dogs are jokes....  

The lion will probably come back some other night for the other dog....  :)

Answer 5

Even if you are walking in the woods trying to be quiet, chances are a puma will see you before you see him. I have come across them several times while hunting, for the most part just seeing a fleeting glimpse of their hindquarters just before they are gone for good. When they are prowling, they are even more stealthy. But we have seen them a lot closer to towns lately, even having a human death not long ago not far away.

I will get bashed by Golden Retreiver fans here, but those dogs they sell to people as pets have been kennel bred for dozens of generations to be sweet and dumb house dogs, not the outdoor hunting dogs that breed once was.

So I guess I'm saying is you have a combination of both factors. Quiet cat, sleepy overweight house dogs.  

Answer 6

the dogs were retarded then or maybe they were deaf? lol

Answer 7

wow

Answer 8

Mountain lions are extremely stealthy.  When out in the wilderness they see you longer before you would ever see them.  Usually you don't see them at all.  Most people who spend lots of time outdoors in nature have probably been seen my mountain lions, but were never even aware of their presence.