LA VERNE, California (KABC) — A family is speaking out after their La Verne home got an unexpected visit from a mountain lion. The front door was wide open, so the big cat made itself right at home.

Now, La Verne neighbors are being told to be on high alert for roaming animals. It isn’t necessarily a neighborhood high in the mountains or deep in the woods. Neighbors say there were kids’ parties going on while the big cat roamed.

There are unwelcome house guests, and then there’s this — a mountain lion strutting through the front door of a La Verne home.

Jeff Tenney was in the kitchen of his mother’s house on Saturday afternoon when the big cat just strolled in.

“Then out of the corner of my eye, I hear and see and feel the large presence,” he said.

Tenney says the moment only lasted a

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