Make sure you walk with someone who runs more slowly than you.

Post on nextdoor for answers...

Where do you live? The OB has a full army of predator killing machines that would love to hunt mountain lions

Part of nature for cats to sneak attack when you turn your back

The thought of sleeping with the windows open is August is more scary than lions. Texas summers are getting to me.

Obviously not in Texas. Talked about blm land and not sleeping with windows open. Neither would even be an option in texas at this time.

I do find comments to the effect of "I'm not worried about the bears, but the lions scare me" to be interesting. Statically speaking, you have a way better chance of an injury related incident with a bear than with a lion. Both can become habituated, but the bears are way more likely to become food conditioned......keep in mind, between California, Colorado, Washington and Orgeon (lots of other potential states, but these 4 account for most contacts) people are in close proximity to lions ALL the time, yet rarely triggers an issue.

That said, read the book listed above A Beast In the Garden. I made all my interns and new biologists read it. It is a major reason most western state agencies (including TPWD) have some sort of plan in place for lions near urban areas.....This is how I ended up with 111 lion investigations, by protocol, I couldn't not ignore what I thought would end up being a stupid call. Shocker, not a single one of the 111 ended up being a lion (Dallas area.....looking at you Colllin County "I know what I saw").

DON'T FEED DEER in you neighborhood....this is easier said than done
DON'T LET THEM GET Comfortable
Do note if you start seeing an uptick in missing pets....but special note, a LEGIT uptick. Nextdoor and Facebook tend to amplify this significantly. I worked a coyote issue in Duncanville about 15 years ago. At the time the issue was an extremely nice subdivision. Pets were disappearing, everyone was up in arms, loudmouth HOA rep/personal injury attorney was going to sue everyone (including me....yeah good luck with that). At the public meeting, I cut to the chase real quick. ONE small white dog, and ONE cat had disappeared in 6 months. ONE early morning jogger had seen a coyote about 5 months prior to the meeting, and mentioned it to his wife. He didn't think a thing of it, but his wife got the WHOLE neighborhood worked up.....just food for thought, this happened a lot over the next 10 years. Hell, I got flown to New Orleans to help them develop their urban coyote management plan after ONE little white dog disappeared. There was no actual proof a coyote was involved.

At least your lions have a very high likelihood of actually being lions. :-)