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Women pinned cougar during 'hand-to-hand combat' to save friend trapped in its jaws (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The cat dialed back pressure through its crushing jaws, and the friend was able to pull away, fellow cyclists said in an interview one month after the incident east of Seattle.

A group of Seattle-area cyclists who helped one of their own escape the jaws of a cougar recounted their story this weekend, saying they fought the cat and pinned it down.

The woman who was attacked, Keri Bergere, sustained neck and face injuries and was treated at a hospital and released following the Feb. 17 incident on a trail northeast of Fall City, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement.

Bergere said she spent five days at an area hospital and was still recovering.

Fish and Wildlife Lt. Erik Olson called the actions of her fellow cyclists "heroic" in the statement. But the extent of the cyclists' battle with the 75-pound cat wasn't immediately clear then.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's always wolves and bears in movies, but if either attack a human it's because the human ignored warnings and the bear or wolves couldn't retreat anymore...

Big cats tho?

It's very easy for them to consider humans food.

A Cougar can stalk a human for miles before striking, and you'll never know it's there.

If you turn around and see a cougar staring at you, you're already considered food and running doesn't help. You need to act like a bear, make a shit ton of noise and pretend you're not currently shitting your pants. And you'll likely scare it off. Act like prey and run tho, and it's going to act like a predator.

Run from a bear and wolves, and they got exactly what they wanted and won't chase.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Run from a bear and wolves, and they got exactly what they wanted and won't chase.

That is the worst advice I've ever seen: a black bear can run 30mph/48kmh and will run you down if you run. Wolfs have a strong predation drive and will also run you down but in a pack. Both of these animals look for weakened prey and weakened prey always run.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What would be handy to have for defense? Something like bear mace, boar spear, or air horn? Would one of those stranger danger backpack alarms scare em off?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

A gun. And plenty of ammo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As unlikely as it is to ever come up, you shouldn't run from wolves or bears either. They both have a strong prey drive and might chase to kill even if that wasn't their objective in the confrontation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Bears (brown, not so much black) and wolves don't see people as prey? Wrong. Humans just cross paths with them less frequently.

Humans may not be the prey of choice for bears and wolves. But that's the case for mountain lions too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You're both wrong, none of them see humans as prey. JFC. None of them want anything to do with humans.

*Downvote all you want. This is fact. People need to be afraid so common parlance has bought into the completely wrong idea that these animals hunt humans. They do not.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This is not fact. This is blind conjecture from an anonymous unqualified user who takes time to respond to down-votes but is too lazy to actually raise a substantive source, or lacks one altogether. Opinion is not fact.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-beat/article/study-most-black-bears-attack-humans-may-see-them-prey/2011/05/11/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Beets, Bears, Battlestar galactica.

Not opinions just facts

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

I changed my mind. These are 100% fax.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty badass of the women. Using the bike to pin that big cat down in just the right spot must've taken some brass too. The thing would be hissing and freaking the fuck out trying to claw you while holding it down.

When your friends fight off a mountain lion, and then pin it down, that's how you know you have some good friends.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In the article I read one of them dropped a 25 pound rock on its head until she was exhausted. She’d almost given up when it finally started letting go. Before that they were stabbing with a small knife and kicking the shit out of it with tree branches and nothing was really working. They also tried choking it out but said it felt like it was made of iron. Scary shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No chance you're gonna choke a cougar, but i don't have a better suggestion haha. They're real beasts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Poor cat...