A mountain lion was shot and killed in Arizona after officials say it attacked a man’s dog, then came back for more. It happened at about 10 p.m. Sunday, May 25, in Buckeye, the state Game and ...

A mountain lion was shot and killed in Arizona after officials say it attacked a man’s dog, then came back for more. It happened at about 10 p.m. Sunday, May 25, in Buckeye, the state Game and ...

A mountain lion was shot and killed in Arizona after officials say it attacked a man’s dog, then came back for more. It happened at about 10 p.m. Sunday, May 25, in Buckeye, the state Game and ...

A mountain lion was shot and killed in Arizona after officials say it attacked a man’s dog, then came back for more. It happened at about 10 p.m. Sunday, May 25, in Buckeye, the state Game and ...

Earlier this month, a Thamin deer, a Gaur calf and an Albino blackbuck died at the zoo. In March, a female dhole (wild dog) died at the zoo while undergoing treatment.

This is not your regular pet dog. The Tibetan Mastiff is a lion-like guard dog originally bred to protect livestock in the freezing Himalayan mountains. It’s big, fluffy, and exceptionally rare.

The mountain lion had the dog in its mouth when it was shot and killed, Tira said. Downieville’s newspaper, the Mountain Messenger, reported that the dog did not survive.

The dog is a golden doodle by the name of Chauncey, named with the character Peter Sellers played in Hal Ashby’s 1979 classic Being There in mind. “And my dog looks like a couple of these ...