MONROVIA NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
This page is for sharing information that you believe may be of benefit to your neighborhoods safety. Our city Manager has seen fit to withhold information that would make you and your neighbors safer so we must find a way to share what we know with others to insure our own safety and that of our neighbors.
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I received this email from a neighbor and it was the catalyst for this Monrovia Neighborhood Watch page:
“I have lived in this area for over 30 years and have noticed the increase in wildlife especially so this summer. I feel there is a lack of communication, support, and resources available to the residents who are dealing with this situation.
Just having learned about a recent mountain lion sighting as well as the killing of another last month, I would like to know where and how was and is this type of information communicated to Monrovia’s residents? I live only a block away from both incidents and feel I am in the dark about potentially dangerous wildlife nearly in my back yard. This summer I have experienced multiple visits from our local mother bear and her cubs and feel there is not much help being given to residents who regularly live with wildlife in their living spaces. After learning of the mountain lion sightings, I am now even more afraid to go out in my own yard as I have 2 young children to think of — not just myself.”
Is there a place where residents can go to for help in dealing with our recent surge of wildlife? If so, is there a place where residents can post incidences and sightings of wildlife? We really need help and education on dealing with the increasing wildlife in our living spaces. What is your advice and or suggestion?
Received today:
Residential Burglary. On October 22, 2008 at approximately 4 p.m. a resident in the 100 block of E. Scenic came home and noticed his bathroom window was open. He was concerned that someone might be inside so he rang his own doorbell. He heard noises coming from the rear of his house. He confronted a suspect who was removing property from the house. The victim began fighting with the suspect and told him he had called the police. The suspect dropped the property and ran away. While the victim went inside and called the police he saw the suspect come back and take the property. The victim shouted to the suspect that he had written down his license plate number. The suspect replied that the vehicle was stolen and fled in the vehicle before police arrived. Officers checked the area for the suspect and vehicle and did not locate him. The investigation is continuing.
Advisory message from the Monrovia Police Department for those neighborhoods adjacent to the foothill wild land interface.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 3, in the 400 block N. Alta Vista, a resident became aware that his 75 lb. dog was being carried off by a mountain lion. The resident yelled at the mountain lion, causing the lion to drop the dog and retreat into the foothills. Domestic animals can become food sources for mountain lions. Dogs and cats left unattended outside can fall prey to wild animals in the foothills. To insure the safety of your pets, please do not leave them unattended outside in the foothill areas. The Monrovia Police Department is in communication with the Department of Fish and Game in this matter. If you have questions, you may call the Monrovia Police Department at (626) 256-8000.
San Gabriel Humane Society will not allow me to adopt a dog based on the area I live in; they said it was too risky due to the incidents of mountain lions and can’t let me adopt at because they do not want to loose an animal.
We have been seriously looking for a dog to help keep an eye out for wildlife. Not only for a watchdog but to have as a pet as well. I was suprised to hear that private humane societies are very strict on things like fence requirements and if you live in an area with wild life as we do here in Monrovia. I was turned down flat today once they learned where I lived and told to go to the County Humane Societies instead – where they may be a little less strict.
For now, I will have to rely on my neighbor’s dogs to alert me when bears and and other wildlife are in the area!
Nina
Arcadia police shot and killed a mountain lion Wednesday night around 8:00pm in the backyard of a home in Arcadia. The 140-pound female mountain lion had just killed a dog and charged responding Arcadia police officers who were forced to shot and kill the mountain lion. This was the second time police officers in the foothill cities have been forced to kill a mountain lion to protect themselves and residents form harm in the last two months. Monrovia Police were forced to shot a mountain lion under similar circumstances in September of this year.
This week, 2 coyotes were seen and one attacked someone on a bycicle at the park on Grand Avenue North of Foothill Blvd. Information about the attack is on the net and many residents received phone calls alerting them of the incidence. We should all be on our toes of the active wild life here in our neighborhoods. Are you fully prepared for an encounter?
Nina