article_snippet.sent: The cougar, the other name for the species, has made his home in the crawlspace under the house in the hilly Los Feliz neighborhood - and has so far resisted all attempts to get his to move out.
article_snippet.sent: Attempts to get the lion to move out - including firing tennis balls - have so far been unsuccessful .
article_snippet.sent: The beautiful animal may have been living in the crawlspace for some time before being discovered .
article_snippet.sent: Ten hours later - despite animal welfare officers using a prod, and even firing tennis balls and bean bags at it - he was still refusing to move. '
article_snippet.sent: Then, last year, the big cat survived mange and a meal of rat poison to become apparently healthy again.
article_snippet.sent: The animal rescue workers have even resorted to using beanbags to move the lion .
article_snippet.sent: However, all this is nothing to the furore surrounding the lion latest move.
article_snippet.sent: they then attempted to fire a tennis ball cannon into the crawl space in the Los Feliz hills with hopes that at least the noise and commotion would scare him out, a tactic that often works with coyotes.
article_snippet.sent: Next, they fired small bean bags, the same kind police sometimes use for human crowd control, toward the cat.
highlights_snippet.sent: So far resisted all attempts by animal welfare workers to make P-22 leave .