i kept thinking Throw a rock at it !
I wonder how he scared it off
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That cougar in Utah was a momma cat, and he had invaded the
space where her little ones were, and she was not comfortable
with him at that distance..
..so, she pushed him out to a distance where she felt her kids were
safe. She did not want to attack him unless she had to, but instead
made bluff charges at him. She didn't want to eat him or fight with
him, she just wanted him gone from the area her kids were in.
After nearly 6 minutes of being stalked, Burgess quickly grabbed a rock and threw it at the large cat, who finally ran away in the opposite direction.
looks like he did throw a rock at it.
I figured that would work. there were plenty of them handy.
Would have been Cool though If someone stepped out of the Woods Or
Behind him And dropped it in its tracks
Just as you instinctively stepped in to protect your nephew, Momma
cougar simply did the same for her cubs. I don't think anyone would
argue that she didn't have as much right to be there as the jogger did.
By her actions, she's communicating to that human to get the heck
away from her kids. I think the guy handled it quite well..he didn't
turn his back to her, and he kept her engaged while creating distance
between them.
There was no need for that cougar to die, as she charged instead of
attacked. Had she been killed, now there's two more orphaned cougar
cubs that will have to be raised by a rehab place, and their chances
of being reintroduced to the wild aren't that great.
If someone's going to jog, camp, fish, prospect, etc. in country that
is known to harbor dangerous large predators, then they should take
the time to educate themselves on the behavior of those predators.
It makes the difference between being terrified of an animal, or keeping
most of your cool and ending the conflict before anyone has to die.