Vocal locals in rural England are demanding that their town seize a millionaire’s menagerie of exotic animals after a puma pounced on one of his employees — a 16-year-old stable hand.

The girl struggled with the 5-foot-long feline for a minute before finally beating back the beast. She suffered bites and scratches that had to be treated at a hospital.

A video of the attack, which happened a year ago last spring, surfaced at a meeting where public officials were considering a planning application by Reece Oliver, a 29-year-old former showjumper who keeps his collection at his farm outside Nottingham. He had applied for a permit to do work on the cages that hold what he has described as his “children.”

Besides the mountain lion, named Rogue, Oliver’s collection includes two African lions as well as monkeys, kangaroos, penguins and squatty marsupials called wombats.

But not all the locals are crazy about the critters.

“A lion on the loose could cause absolute havoc,” said Rosemary Walker, 68. “It doesn’t bear thinking about what could happen if a small child got jumped on.”