A mountain lion clawed the head of a man who was sitting in a hot tub of a rental house in Chaffee County Saturday evening – the first reported attack on a human in more than a year, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials.
NATHROP, Colo. —
The man, who suffered minor injuries, and his wife then went inside to clean the man’s scratches and reached out to the owner of the rental house, who then alerted Colorado Parks and Wildlife around 10 p.m. Saturday. The responding wildlife officers confirmed that the scratches were consistent with a swipe from a mountain lion’s paw.
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