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IN LIKE A LION: That wasn’t a...

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IN LIKE A LION: That wasn’t a mountain lion attack in El Toro over the weekend, an expert said Monday. . . . Paul Beier, a UC Berkeley specialist who has been studying mountain lions in Orange County for the past three years, checked the predator’s footprints and decided the caged bunnies had been mauled by a dog--or dogs. The tracks “definitely weren’t from a cougar,” he said. “They were dog tracks.” He said the attacks in the subdivision might have been the work of two dogs, or “just one dog with different-sized feet.”

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