Posted by patiolant on March 04, 2009 at 08:39:58 from (128.233.161.64):
In Reply to: Cougars in Michigan posted by relaurain on March 04, 2009 at 04:55:31:
A neighbours 6 year old son came face to face with one when running over a hill a few years ago (we're in Saskatchewan, Canada). He ran back one direction, and the cat ran the other (luckily!). He ran back to the house so out of breath he couldn't talk, and just showed his mom a picture from a book to explain what he saw. His dad went out to the spot and the tracks confirmed it was a big cougar.
The reality, though, is that there are not as many cougar attacks on humans as some people think since the media makes a national incident out of it when one happens (a much larger number of people are injured or die from dog attacks). I think what scares most people is that a person has little chance of surviving an attack from such an efficient predator, let alone even knowing what attacked before you die. Just watch the efficiency with which a barn cat hunts and catches a mouse and then increase the predator size 50 fold; a person doesn't stand a chance if a cougar decides it is hungry.
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