Cat Stares Down a Puma

[imp]

Cannot copy video, but look at it here:

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Amazingly long time for a Mt. Lion to remain so still. We had them in Missouri, rare to see, heard them at night often. One morning as I walked down the front steps, I spotted a huge face looking out at me from behind our huge Mulberry tree, big CAT! He just loped off across the road, and down towards the creek. imp

 

[applecruncher]

Wow, brave kitty!

 

[oakapple]

Brave Imp, I would have dived back indoors. I can't imagine living somewhere with mountain lions strolling around.

 

[imp]

Well, after being chased by a swarm of angry hornets which, unbeknownst to me, had inhabited the hollow pipe railing of our front steps, stung on the top of my scalp, fought off horse flies, green-headed blood-sucking flies, and the worst, the TICKS, seeing a little old Mt. Lion was just gravy! The cyclone fence surrounding the yard was only 4 feet high, he was outside of it, just quietly looking at me for several seconds. Not to mention, my left hand (southpaw, don'tcha know), was on my 9mm pistol tucked into my pants waist.

See, whether ya agree or not, those folks who happen to live in the middle of 7 million acres of National Forest, actually have firearms for the purpose of self-defense, should that need ever arise. Here's an example:

Fairly large copperhead (venomous) which slithered out of our flower bed when my wife & I returned from our evening walk, just a few feet away from her bare ankles; I dispatched it for safety's-sake with the afore-mentioned 9mm. However, I would normally not kill a snake. imp