See Three Curious Mountain Lions Walk Straight Up To The Front Door

This is the extreme version of finding some abandoned kittens on your doorstep. It is as if the three mountain lion cubs have come seeking help from their human neighbors. It’s not surprising that this heart-warming footage has already been viewed more than three million times.

Mountain Lions at the Front Door

The three mountain lion cubs cautiously approach the front porch at first. As they get closer, they get bolder and eventually end up right next to the front window so we get a great view of them. They are clearly three cubs but there is no mother to be seen.

We learn from the video notes that the family recording the footage ended up getting involved in the mountain lion’s welfare. There were no reports of a mountain lion female getting hit by a car in the area so the fate of their mother was never discovered. However, these three little guys needed help!

They were rescued by a local animal rescue organization in Preston, Idaho at first. Then, they were moved to a wildlife reserve in North Carolina. To move the animals, they needed to be sedated and sadly one of them reacted badly to the sedative and did not survive the journey. The other two, however, settled in well and are happy and healthy.

All About Mountain Lions

Mountain lions are a member of the cat family and are a native species of North America, Central America and South America. They look very much like a large domestic cat with short fur, small heads and a short face. They live a solitary life and are at the top of the food chain so it is unlikely that the mother of these cubs was killed by a predator. The main threat to their numbers is humans.

These big cats are carnivores so they need to eat meat to survive. They are ambush predators and they lie in wait and then pounce on unsuspecting prey. These guys will eat anything from small rodents all the way up to elk.

Litters are made up of two or three cubs and they stay with their mother until they are two years of age. These babies chose the right humans to help them out!