In the past I questioned whether Mt. Lions were in the foothills, I probably believed that they weren't such that I could consider running at dusk "safe." At Bobcat ridge there are a set of nature cameras (too bad they don't post the humans walking by;
http://www.fcgov.com/naturalareas/wildlife-camera....) and one of them captured this:
This is decidedly something that would tear your face off. Its creepy for two reasons, I ran that trail today, and apparently the big cats of this area have death-ray eyes. Oh, the photo set shows bears and tons of smaller cats, on top of the usual (turkeys, deer, elk, coyote).