Yesterday A Mountain Lion Stalked Me

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Last night I was out for my nightly walk (it's usually a lonely one). At one point I was passed by a jogger. about two minutes later the jogger came sprinting back the other way, stopped in front of me and motioned for me to take off my headphones, so I did. He looks back and points behind him, says "There's a cougar back there!"

"A cougar?"

"Just off the path." He's pointing, and I notice something in the bushes moving toward us at a slight angle.

Jogger dude says "I'm going this way, and books it away while looking back at me, waving for me to follow. So I start walking away pretty fucking fast, but I don't run or jog because I figure if this cougar wants me then I'm going to need the energy. So I'm walking, and i can hear it walking through the bushes just behind and to the side of me, and i can tell it's a big motherfucker too because all the bushes around it are moving pretty crazy.

I round a corner and the jogger dude is there waiting for me (nice dude). He nods at me and then keeps jogging away, I'm still saving my energy just in case. Keep in mind it's night and kind of hard to see anything clearly, but we could both hear that cat coming pretty well.

Anyways, every time I come around a corner the jogger is waiting there for me, and then he keeps running. At one point I thought about waiting at one of the intersections in the woods to warn people about it, so I stopped, but then I looked back and actually saw the fucking thing probably about 40 feet away, walking towards me through the long grass, so I walk out of the forest as fast as I can.

As soon as I got out of there, jogger dude is waiting for me and I see him pull out his cellphone, and he starts calling the police or animal services or whoever. I keep looking behind me to see if the cat is coming out of the woods but I don't see it anywhere so I figure it must have decided to stay in there.

I head home and jogger dude heads whatever way he was going, probably home as well.

Overall, I'd say it was a pretty frightening experience, especially after it decided that making itself obviously visible to me wasn't such a bad idea. It's kinda funny though because just last week I had been complaining to my mum about how I never see any cougars in the neighborhood, even though the brochure we were given before we moved in said cougars were spotted occasionally (they usually only come this far when they can't get food elsewhere). 6 years of living here and I finally get to see my first cougar (the animal kind, anyways), and the thing is fucking following me for a couple of minutes.

Yeah, cool story hansel, I know. Anybody got any similar run-ins with dangerous animals? Post up your stories here if you do.

 
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what happens if you start chuckin' rocks at it? do they become "more scared of you than you are of them"? about the worst wild animals I ever have to encounter are pablo & tyrone when I'm out drinking.
 
i don't know, but i remember reading about cougars when i was a kid, and that if you raise your hands over your head to make yourself look bigger then they'll be less tempted to tango. they are attracted to noise, which kind of sucks because bears always move away from noise, and i never know whether to make a lot of noise or be quiet when i'm in the woods (although bears are a pretty common occurrence here).

 
Really good story, thats gnarly

Worst encounter i had was i ran into a moose a few years ago when i was Biking, scared the hell out of me, it just looked and me and i ran away haha
 
If I recall correctly, there was a thread a while ago where you said you got mauled by a bear? You, my friend, just may become the next generation's North American "Crocodile Hunter."
But I was snorkeling in the Caribbean one time with my family, and I got distracted and kind of left the pack. I noticed a shiny sand dollar on the sea floor, so i took a breath and went down to grab it. At the bottom, I picked up the sand dollar and examined it for a few seconds, and slowly started my ascent. Halfway through the water column, I found myself face to face with a massive barracuda. Like 8 inches from my face, displaying its toothy grin. Startled, but not yet panicked, I dropped my sand dollar and slowly backed away. When I had a safe distance I turned around to bolt, only to be staring down the grill of a second barracuda. At this point I said fuck it, turned left and swam for my life. Turns out barracudas don't really attack swimmers, they're just curious and love to come check you out. But at the time, I felt like I was being stalked and seriously believed that I would be skeletonized in a matter of seconds.
 
There was a bear drifting down the creek next to my mom while she was running one day. It was the same one that chased the pregnant woman in Colorado Springs until she ran out into traffic and got hit by a car.
 
what is if it was this mofo?

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or this? it would kill you with cuteness. just look at that face

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but actually, my worst was when i got woken up a couple nights ago by a crying fox. i would have put money on it that there was a 12 year old girl getting rapped and brutally slaughtered outside my window
 
i as at mount snow like 3 years ago and this moose somehow found its way onto one of the main gaper highways of the mountain and they closed like 4 trails for this insane moose than was going apeshit on people
 
where do you live?

ye thats right your supposed make your self look big so that it thinks that if it attacks you it will get its ass kicked. I ran into a cougar once when I was like 10 hikeing with my dad and my bro, and saw one from my deck another time. but ye they usewolly only attack if they know you can't see them there pussys if they dont have the element of supprise, Thats why some native tribes used to make masks and wear them on the back of their heads when they walked through the woods so that if a cougar snuck up behind them it would they it was seen.

that jogger was a dumbshit for running away, you guys just needed back away together, the chances of it attacking when thers 2 of you are looking right at it are like none they also get scared if you yell at them

anyways cool story
 
as far southwest in calgary as you can go before you hit city limits (discovery ridge). my house backs onto griffith woods, which is one of three parks with special environmental protection in calgary. 93 hectares of forest.
 
i saw a show on discovery about a woman who was mtn biking and got mauled by a mtn lion..it ripped the whole left side of her face almost completely off and the rescue people found the body of another biker nearby...gnarly shit
 
one time i was in my go-kart and and coyote started chasing me and it was keeping up with me so i just floored it toward my dad who was mowing the lawn so he veered the tractor toward it and it got scared and went away. it was one of the scariest things ever
 
We had some coyotes stalking a baby horse of ours one time, me and my dad grabbed a couple rifles and got them to leave pretty fast. Found a carcass of our neighbors horse though, something fucked it up pretty bad.

Another time me and a couple friends were walking down one of the main roads that go past campus at college and a black bear just strolls across the street, in the middle of the city right in front of us. It was pretty sweet.
 
We have cougers in my neighborhood. and bears

Bear story number 1: We keep dog food in trash cans in the garage, and there is a door from the yard. anyways, it kept getting knocked over, and then finally we found it pulled into the woods with large teeth marks in it. bear teeth. the bear came into our garage and stole our dog food. We also see them pretty frequently.

Bear story number 2: When I was little I spent my summers on Shasta lake. One time we woke up to a banging. a large black bear was banging on the sliding glass door trying to get in. my dad banged pots and pans to scare it away.

Bear story number 3: Again, at shasta, I was wakeboarding and a bear was swimming across the channel. We made a couple passes until my friend decided I needed to go swimming with the bear. he slowed down and I sank about 5-10 feet away from the bear. I was very angry at him. I don't invite him on my boat anymore.

I actually have lots more bear stories. but these are the most exciting.
 
A little kid got attacked by a cougar in Squamish last week as well as two dogs (one of the dogs got pulled up into a tree and died).
When I was 8 I went camping and when we left the campground it was roped off saying "Campground Closed- Problem Bear in Area" (they shut down the campground without checking to see if anyone was there). After walking about a kilometer we turned a corner and a black bear was right ahead of us. We slowly backed back around the corner and it disappeared.
 
I saw a wolf as I was walking home about a month ago. It was like midnight and I was high as shit. I ran 500 metres in the dark to get home. The fucking thing was HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE
 
i work as a bread delivery person so i have to be at work all night, one night i pulled up to this restaurant which is scary as fuck to begin with because it is in the middle of the woods and dark as shit and everyone has always told me about bear stories there... anyway, its like 230 in the morning i pull up, get out, take the bread inside walk out, and between me and my truck are two bear feasting from the dumpster between me and the truck... i bolt to the truck peel out reversing and the fucking bear flip ape shit and start chasing me and on swiped at the truck and ripped the mirror off the drivers side and put huge scratches all along the side, craziest shit ever cuz i almost got mauled to death over a truck load of bread
 
One good thing about Australia, we don't have bears or mountain lions. Where I live the worst thing you come across is snakes and spiders. Pretty tame by comparison.
 
how about those whitetail and redback spiders in oz.
Cougars do scare the shit out of me though, normal circumstances I would rather run into a black bear or some coyotes than a cougar,
Unless its the middle-aged haggered kind .
 
doesn't the deadliest spider in the world come from Australia? not to mention some very dangerous snakes?
 
Yeah, we have some pretty dangerous spiders and snakes but I suppose growing up with them you just don't get that bothered. Also the fact that my boot can take out a spider easy where a bear would just rip my arms off..
 
The thing that scares me about those creatures is that they can be crawling around your house while you have no idea. For the most part, you're safe from bears and mountain lions when you're inside whereas a scorpion could sting you in the middle of the night.
 
your lucky man. they dont tend to attack swimmers but they are attracted to shiny shit, people lose hands while wearing watches and shit, good thing you dropped it. me and a few guys from our lax team decided to swim this channel near our school for a more fun way to do our conditioning, its about a mile wide. we swam it three times, to later find out it is the deepest natural channel in the keys (about 45 feet deep) and home to 14 foot hammerheads and 10 foot bullsharks. a fisherman told us he saw a 300 lb tarpin jump, most likely being chased by something trying to eat it. if whatever was chasing that can eat a 300 lb fish with iron-like scales, it would have had no problem with eating a good portion of my team.
 
dude it wasn't even that late it was just after 10. i mean there was a dude jogging through as well.
 
Not too many experiences with this but one time I was meeting some friends at like 1am at our high school to midnight skate in the parking lot. Anyway one of my friends skates up from a side street all freaked out saying that something had been following him in the woods the whole time he was skating over (plus he had to walk thro this freaky path in the woods). We turned around and it was a tiny little fox.
 
i live in WI, the scariest animals i come across are cows and little spiders
i know i gotta have a story ffrom a vacation or something, so i guess my threads for later
good story though
 
Up here in da Upper Penisula, we gots the killer whitetails and pourcupines. Seriously, about five people have been attack by "the killer whitetail" mountain biking. It just randomly jumps on people and runs away, same with the porkies.
 
A couple summers ago, my girlfriend and I were lying on a long dock on a big lake in the middle of the night. We heard something moving in the bushes at the edge of the water, and a cougar suddenly walked out of the brush and started coming down the dock toward us. We jumped up and started waving our arms and yelling at it, and it stopped about 25 feet away and just stared at us for a minute. It seemed to decide that we weren't worth its time, and finally turned around and headed back into the bushes. We got out of there really quickly and I haven't been back since.
 
I had a scorpion climing up my bedroom wall once, caught it in a cup and chucked it outside, we also get redbacks, camel spiders and the occasional deser lynx, their are some mountain lions in the mountains too when i go hiking, but theworst here is def the ocean
We got barracuda plus hammerheads,bullsharks and tiger sharks.
Shark encounter 1- Sailing a two man boat neat the palm, during a regatta and a small fish jumps clear of the water, followed by a huge bull shark , this all happened about 40 meters from out boat, some retard who was further away repoerted it as a tutle, dumbass.
Shark encounter 2- While surfing near the burj i notice a large sandy coloured thing under the water, we pass it off as a lone dolphin, later to see the lifeguards from the jumirah beach hotel nextdoor have evacuated the water because of a tiger shark sighting, scary shit
Also one of the largest hammerheads in the world was caught where i used to go diving in the fjords about 70 km from here, afew divers saw it just before a small boat caught it (The shark was larger than the boat) and said that it was harressing them.
 
i was biking in kenna cartwright park with 4 other dudes and we were going down the hill part of this trail and startled this black bear mother, cub, and 2 yearlings. we split the 2 cubs on one side of the path (they were both up in one tree) and to the left of the path was the one yearling up the tree and the mother kind of turning towards me so i booked it down the trail.

anyways, i wouldn't walk around at night in a wooded area with my headphones on.
 
haha i play them full blast too, otherwise i can hear every little animal moving in the dark and it freaks me out. much easier to walk through the woods at night when you can't hear anything.
 
wow, that would have sketched me the fuck out.

one got stuck in the window well of a coworker's neighbor a few days ago near the south end of the salt lake valley. it tried to jump over and didnt make it for some reason. they came and tranq'd it and released it away from the homes.
 
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