Certainly. But a cat that age should still be in the play-with-it-’’til-it’s -dead phase of it’s hunting career. I doubt it ever took on anything nearly as large as this guy, before. And I wouldn’t wanna mess with a 10 pound raccoon if I was trying to strangle it. Once fight-or-flight is triggered, even a rat gets really ugly.
“...should still be in the play-with-it-’’til-it’s -dead phase... Once fight-or-flight is triggered...
Good points. So did this cat not know enough to stay away from a larger animal (in this case a human) and tried to take a bite out of him - and the guy understandably defended himself, or - was the cat so unafraid that it came up to the guy, the guy went to grab or pet the cat - and then the cat freaked out?
Even if the guy did do something stupid and tried to pet the mountain lion, from the looks of his injuries, he hopefully has learned his lesson. No sense worrying about the dead “kitten” anymore.