Stewart Loew was excited at the first sighting, but soon realized the mountain lion hanging out at the all-natural farm had hungry intentions.

First, four sheep turned up dead. Then, according to the Arizona Daily Star, on June 15, all the farm’s mammals—16 pygmy and Nubian goats—were slain by the big cat. Only the geese remained.

Loew didn’t want to kill the old male mountain lion, but faced a tough choice – the cat or his farm’s visitors. The visitors won.

"I wish that he was just moving through, but he had just settled in here," Loew said.

Loew called a family friend, also a mountain lion hunter, with a depredation permit, or permission to kill an animal that has been eating people's livestock, from the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

The hunter and his dogs arrived to find the mountain lion lounging in the farmyard. The hunter treed the cat and shot it.

Even though it’s unusual for mountain lions to settle into a farm, the mountain lion had become used to humans and made the farm his new home.

"This lion obviously went in there and had lunch, but that's not the norm. From a management standpoint, that lion should be dealt with," said Paul Krausman of the University of Montana.

In 2008, 42 mountain lions were killed in Arizona for predation of livestock.