Seeing as I'm in a defending myself against wild animals mood, I was much amused by an Associated Press article:Ex-Marine uses chain saw to fend off attacking mountain lion
So, that's pretty awesome, right? Mountain lion, AKA cougar, AKA puma. Here's some choice lines....Dustin Britton, a 32-year-old mechanic and ex-Marine from Windsor, Col., said he was alone cutting firewood about 30 metres from his campsite in the Shoshone National Forest about 43 kilometres west of Cody when he saw the 45-kilogram lion staring at him from some bushes.
The 6-foot-tall, 170-pound Mr. Britton said he raised his chain saw and met the lion head-on as it pounced — a collision he described as feeling like a grown man running directly into him.
“It batted me three or four times with its front paws and as quick as I hit it with that saw it just turned away,” he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
I don't know much about mountain lions per se, but aren't they all basically cats?
ReplyDeleteCats basically don't like surprises, and when confronting one(of course I'd probably faint but this is the internet), probably best to show no fear, try to relax as much as humanly possible, in order not to give it's primordal cat instinct a chance to get fired up.
Cats basically just want to be left to do their thing. They appreciate honesty from people, since, like babies, they tend to suffer from misunderstanding(babies being human beings that cannot talk, not really the dribbling bundles of goo 99% of people associate them with).
I saw some alligators in Japan, being fed like pets, which basically tore it for me that there isn't a creature alive that doesn't have at least the germ of a pet inside of it.