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Ok, I admit it - I was a stupe. I took a bag of month-old frozen shrimp with me as I walked around my neighborhood about fifteen minutes ago while attempting to locate an apparently wild, but very beautiful dog.
I didn't locate the dog.
On the NW corner of our complex, however, a mountain lion located me!
It was clearly interested in the shrimp, so I simply let him/her have it! Funny thing, though, it did not approach me as much of a predator, but more like a big kitty. I usually carry a firearm while walking around town at night, but I didn't this evening as I was "only" taking a short hike through my neighborhood.
I'm still shaking! He (I think it may have been a he) walked up behind me on the backstretch of the NW corner of my complex. I heard something and turned around, and there "he" was, sniffing after what I was carrying.
I shifted into "adopted pet mode," and simply said something like, "Hey, ah-ah-ah!" at which this "kitty" just realized I meant it no harm, and started partaking of the shrimp in my bag.
I stood about ten feet while it devoured about ten shrimp, and when it looked up at me after it was done, I simply leaned over and said, "Ok! Food's gone - timne for you to leave!"
Sheesh! Argha! Yak! "Nice kitty" and all but dang, I do NOT want to repeat this experience!
And yet it wasn't a "cat grab everything." This is the weird part - I held onto the bag while I fed "kitty," but only for a moment - then I stepped back while it finished. Something about man vs animal kicked in. I don't know what it was, but I can assure you CAT was going to get the shrimp!
Still, it was more of an "asking" than it was an attack. I certainly don't want to obfuscate the issue.
But wow - I've never met a cougar before! I'm so glad she was polite! - Nice kitty..
Gah...
I didn't locate the dog.
On the NW corner of our complex, however, a mountain lion located me!
It was clearly interested in the shrimp, so I simply let him/her have it! Funny thing, though, it did not approach me as much of a predator, but more like a big kitty. I usually carry a firearm while walking around town at night, but I didn't this evening as I was "only" taking a short hike through my neighborhood.
I'm still shaking! He (I think it may have been a he) walked up behind me on the backstretch of the NW corner of my complex. I heard something and turned around, and there "he" was, sniffing after what I was carrying.
I shifted into "adopted pet mode," and simply said something like, "Hey, ah-ah-ah!" at which this "kitty" just realized I meant it no harm, and started partaking of the shrimp in my bag.
I stood about ten feet while it devoured about ten shrimp, and when it looked up at me after it was done, I simply leaned over and said, "Ok! Food's gone - timne for you to leave!"
Sheesh! Argha! Yak! "Nice kitty" and all but dang, I do NOT want to repeat this experience!
And yet it wasn't a "cat grab everything." This is the weird part - I held onto the bag while I fed "kitty," but only for a moment - then I stepped back while it finished. Something about man vs animal kicked in. I don't know what it was, but I can assure you CAT was going to get the shrimp!
Still, it was more of an "asking" than it was an attack. I certainly don't want to obfuscate the issue.
But wow - I've never met a cougar before! I'm so glad she was polite! - Nice kitty..
Gah...
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