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Careful with that chainsaw...
If a hungry mountain lion comes after you, how should you respond? Most experts recommend that you stop and make yourself look as large as possible, aggressively defending your position. But Dustin Britton, a mechanic and ex-Marine from Windsor, Colo., didn’t need no stinkin’ experts; according to The Associated Press, he just picked up his chainsaw. Britton explained that the cougar attacked him while he was cutting wood in northwestern Wyoming: “It batted me three or four times with its front paws, and as quick as I hit it with that saw, it just turned away.”
Wildlife officers tracked the cougar with dogs, one of which was attacked before the officers managed to kill the big cat. It was only the ninth case in the last decade of cougars acting aggressively towards humans in Wyoming. If the word gets out among cougars, it may be the last for a while.
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