A classroom at California’s Pescadero High School got an unexpected visitor on Wednesday — a mountain lion.
Students were locked down and eventually released early while they figured out a plan to safely get the mountain lion out of the classroom.
School district superintendent Amy Wooliever tells ABC affiliate KGO that the lion, described by officials as a juvenile male, wandered into the school as students were arriving for the day.
“It was right before school,” she said. “The door had been left open as a student had exited and then the cat went in.”
The district says that it’s not unheard of for a mountain lion to come close to campus but never inside a classroom.
Students and staff were safe, as was the mountain lion cub.