Sean C. Morgan
Waiting for his coffee to finish brewing, Eric J. von Ladau was leaning against the frame of the sliding glass door that leads to his backyard on Foothills Drive in Sweet Home when he watched a cougar walking along his fence at about 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 10.
The wind was blowing away from the mountain lion toward him, von Ladau said, so the cougar didn’t notice him.
“I looked at him…