Cougar stalks woman on Vancouver Island, she yells bad kitty and plays Metallica

[Beringia]

Dee Gallant and her dog Murphy were recently walking around Vancouver Island, British Columbia, when they spotted a mountain lion sizing them up for lunch. Gallant said she went to her bag of tricks to scare it off, but not until she desperately blasted a Metallica song its way did it cower off and retreat, according to AVClub.

Cougars hate Metallica. It’s scientific fact now; we’re just waiting for Gallant to publish her findings.

She said she initially yelled and waved her arms, but the cougar remained still and “just stayed locked on to me and seemed really interested.”

Gallant recorded about a minute of the stare-down with the cat.

She can be heard trying to reason with the cougar (“Get out of here. Go on. Git.”), shame it (“Bad kitty! Bad kitty!”), intimidate it (“I’ll fight you.”), and even cuss at it (“You little bastard”).

None of it worked.

“So that is when I decided to stop recording and try to do something else,” she adds.

Gallant said she searched for the “noisiest” song on her playlist. She decided on Metallica’s appropriately titled “Don’t Tread on Me.”

“(As) soon as the first notes blared out it ran into the bush,” Gallant said.



https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/01/metallica-song-saves-woman-and-her-dog-from-mountain-lion-attack/

[Coventina]

1. I don't blame the cougar for running away from Metallica.

Those guys suck big time!!!

[hlthe2b]

2. Someone with such bad taste in music, could not possibly be...

tasty to eat!

(smart cat)

[skypilot]

3. "Cat Scratch Fever" might have done the trick also.

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[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. That would scare me away!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Opera also works, apparently.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hiker-mountain-lion-opera_n_5695886

[Beringia]

6. I think stalking is big fun for them

But of course, if you run, then it may turn on their kill instinct.

I went to a park in Wisconsin that had a few cougars and I would play hide and seek with them, they got into their crouching and stalking attitude with me.