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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