Posted on 12/20/2007 9:04:58 PM PST by george76
Teri Thomas was asleep in her Lucky John Drive home late Saturday night when her pet miniature poodle woke her up, barking and scratching at a window to try to get outside.
Thomas figured she should try to protect the furniture from her pet. She leaned down and glanced out the window. Outside, just three or four inches from the window, sat a mountain lion staring inside, startling Thomas as she tried to calm her dog.
"I leapt back and screamed," Thomas says of the encounter with the big cat.
The mountain lion was sniffing a crack in the window as it looked inside. It was probably 6 feet long, Thomas estimates, and it was still as it was outside the window.
Thomas screamed again. The mountain lion casually walked away.
"We were a total of one pane of glass and 12 inches apart," she says.
Craig Clyde, a wildlife biologist with the state Division of Wildlife Resources ...
He says the mountain lion probably does not live nearby.
(Excerpt) Read more at parkrecord.com ...
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he must have snuck up on her and said, “boo!”
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Thanks, that’s one of my favorites.
Weren’t the old “Twilight Zones” good? Simple, exciting, interesting, intriguing, well told story and all in 30 minutes
Y’know, as beautiful as wildlife is in a natural area, I still refuse to pet anything at the same level, or higher, than I stand on the food chain.
LOL
Not a very smart dog. Mine would have been hiding under the bed, and she's a Rotty. LOL
My thoughts exactly.
>>He says the mountain lion probably does not live nearby.<<
Just visiting for Christmas, I suppose.
We both know that the lion will be back.
Then the DOW guy will be shocked and surprised, again.
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Wow, the neighborhood cat worries me enough.
This is interesting:
Growling Mountain Lion at the Bismarck Zoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnYUTYbfzFk&NR=1
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