Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
dang.
I saw “killer cougars” and then I scanned the story and saw “6-year-old Steven, 11-year-old Melissa and 13-year-old David”
and I got the WRONG idea.
;p
Wow, truly incredible...And WTH is up with Canada??? So much of the place is a primeval wilderness, and yet its illegal to be armed outside hunting season. Darn liberal sap-suckers.
She fought a cougar for an hour?
England got rid of it’s predators many centuries ago.
I live in Northeast Washington. Grizzy Bears and cougars. I’m much more concerned about cougars. Especially since the libs in the apartments of downtown Seattle, people who’ve never seen wildlife except a squirrel in the park, voted to outlaw hunting cougars with hounds.
At least we can still arm ourselves.
Canada should be ashamed that people in the outdoors can’t protect themselves.
What a great Mother. We see so many stories of Mothers starving their children or killing them that we need to be reminded that the vast number of Mothers would give their lives for their children.
PING!
*Note to self: Carry gun while hiking or skiing*
Incredibly brave and outstanding woman!
At an animal preserve in CO, I witnessed the feeding of a pair of cougars. They tossed some whole frozen chickens into the pen. When I heard them crunching all I could think was, “That could be a human head.”
I am rather overcome with sadness for this family:
“It must have been horrible,” says Ms. Johnson. “ Cougars pounce and back off, pounce and back off. Cindy was of average height, five-foot-five, and of average weight, but she was fit. The animal must have spent the entire time wearing her down.”
She still, according to the first link, had a look of fierce defiance on her face when she asked, after an hour of combat, whether her children were alright!? What manner of warrior is this? I can only remind myself that she got to hear that her children were alright before she ‘relaxed and said she was dying’. That was what she fought for - that was what she won, the hard way. I am glad that they are acknowledging this woman with an award - it would be wrong not to honor such a person.
