Animal-control officials Monday evening were trying to coax the much-photographed mountain lion known as P-22 from under the crawl space of a Los Feliz home -- but so far, their efforts have proved unsuccessful.
Hours after the puma was discovered under a hillside home near Griffith Park, a state Department of Fish and Game official shot tennis balls and tried to poke the usually wily lion in an effort to nudge the animal to slink back into the wild.
Neither method proved effective, so around 9:35 p.m., authorities fired bean bag rounds into the narrow space.
The lion was not swayed.
Video of the ordeal was streamed online, with cameras showing P-22 hunkered down in the rear of the crawl space, hiding behind wood beams and fiberglass insulation.
Officials wrapped up efforts to persuade the lion to leave the crawl space just before 10 p.m., but left flour by the entrance to determine if he escaped.
The bobcat was found around noon Monday when a man installing a security system came face-to-face with it, according to the home's owner Jason Archinaco.
"He looked white as a ghost," Archinaco said of the worker.
Janice Mackey, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, confirmed that the lion is P-22 and said animal control officials waited until nightfall before trying to get the puma out of the enclosed space.
Fish and wildlife officials actually blocked off the crawl space to prevent the lion from leaving, but after 8 p.m., reopened the area as they restarted efforts to pressure P-22 to leave.
Archinaco's home is less than a block from Griffith Park, where P-22 has lived for more than three years, so once the lion crawls out, it will be in its natural habitat, Mackey said.
The discovery of P-22 there was considered a major event because big cat, who is at least 5 years old, probably made a trek east from the Santa Monica Mountains to get there.
Scientists surmised that P-22 might have traversed a bridge or culvert to cross the 101 and 405 freeways to enter the park. It's possible, however, that the cat sprinted across lanes of traffic -- and got very lucky.
Sometime after P-22 entered the park, he triggered a remote camera set up for a general wildlife survey.
The big cat has become something of a celebrity thanks to dramatic photos printed in National Geographic magazine showing P-22 roaming the hillside with the Hollywood sign in the background.
Archinaco, a Pittsburgh native who has lived in L.A. for about two years, was struck by the spectacle unfolding over the lion's discovery, with news vans and fire trucks crowding into the narrow, winding street.
He joked, "Now we have a celebrity living under our house."
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Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times7:20 p.m.: This story was updated to include that the crawl space under the Los Feliz home was blocked off.
6:14 p.m.: This story was updated to include comments from Janice Mackey
This story was originally published at 5:53 p.m.
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