Rebecca Kracker, the owner of the dog and goats, was relieved the wild animal was killed but wrote in a lengthy Dec. 4 Facebook post that she wishes the issue had been resolved sooner.When she went to check on him, she wrote, she found that he was "convulsing" as a mountain lion was pulling him by his neck out of the house.According to a 1996 Fish and Wildlife study, anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 mountain lions live in the state, but Paglia thinks this number may be inflated.In recent weeks, she was more willing to put herself near human activity with people having frequent sightings of her, as well as feeding almost exclusively on livestock, all of which is very unusual behavior.” Kracker told SFGATE on the phone that in her 30 years of living on the property in Bennett Valley, a rural neighborhood in Santa Rosa, she had never seen a mountain lion."We want to provide people with what they’re looking for, but it’s also our duty to exercise caution in issuing a lethal permit," Paglia told SFGATE on the phone."