Monroe family has close encounter with cougar in backyard 

Exactly. This is their home, and we are living in it.

What would you do, just sit there?

Well, she did react, but experts suggest holding your ground instead of fleeing for safety, then you become a prey and target for them to chase etc.

You never wanna run from a cougar. It signals to them that you're prey.

Free range chickens….what could go wrong🤔

Yup....like a supermarket for Cougars. They'll be back.

She really is.... I hate seeing posts on next door of people complaining about wild animals in their yards. I always reply to them "Well, THEY were here first..."

Sooo very true. Expanded housing taking away habitat. And unless you want your pets to be prey….keep them indoors.

No, just young... that was a small mountain lion...

It got two covid shots and a booster and hasn't been seen since. I think it "died suddenly".

Just like those dudes that wear biker gear but don't own a motorcycle 😂

@@PB-jk8bl exactly, cosplay at it's finest 😁

Sure thing Zeke, did you have Possum innards and greens for dinner tonight too?

🤣 best tasting 🤣 needed that

Seriously, the cat will be back…..yummy , easy pickings.

It probably didn't go after the chickens because the chickens weren't moving very much. The cats were walking around, making them more enticing to the cougar...

A mountain cougar killed a guy in northern California a few months ago

@@bobbobsin3202 Yes, only 20 miles from where I live, but fatal attacks remain rare, only a handful in the last 130 years,.

But they see you.

@@richardkronberg4925. What one fears, one destroys” Native Wisdom Chief Dan George.@@richardkronberg4925

@@richardkronberg4925 because that's what idiots do. So of course it would not be reported, can't have them looking like a fool

They lived basically everywhere til city folk killed and drove them off for their concrete jungles

Nope. The cougar recoiled from the people. He wouldn't have attacked in that moment. If the cat had stayed behind the bins, the cougar would have run off. Unless attacked, a cougar doesn't change targets like that.

@@mollymainstream8005 No, your wrong. He/she locked eyes on them and only changed when the cat he/she chased behind the garbage 🗑 came running out again. Is it a given that it would have attacked them, no. But maybe

@scottkellogg9736 Can we then agree that "maybe" if you build your home close to nature, you may see some close up and personal?

@@mollymainstream8005 What does that have to do with my comment? Nothing. The little debate here is whether that cat might have gone after mom and child that was holding a little dog. That cougar had them in his sights when the cat went behind the garbage 🗑. When the cat took off again that startled the cougar and it went after the cat again. Only God knows what would have happened if the cat stayed behind the cans?

@scottkellogg9736 Why didn't the cougar go for the chickens? The chickens would have been much easier, so why do you think 🤔 that the big kitty never broke concentration on the little kitty? Yep, he looked at the people because they surprised him. He didn't know that they were there, he hadn't considered what he'd run into. This is a young cougar, he has no sense but it doesn't make him a murderer or even a potential murderer just because YOU think he COULD be! This isn't a joke right here, this cat WILL DIE if humans think he's a threat! I'm saying that he doesn't deserve the "potential threat" label because he didn't do anything! It's not about "what if" if I apply that to YOU, could I say "this person's comment offends me, WHAT IF they're a jackass!?" ...no.. that would be prematurely unfair of me. As our dialogue continues, however... I may be forced to make a decision on the matter...