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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] 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do NOT play dead with a cougar. They will fuck you up.

Fight back like your life depends on it.

https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/yoursafety_mountainlions.htm

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (6 children)

tldr dont run, stay big and aggressive looking. the moment you turn around or act small itll attack on instict.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 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] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From what I've read the only way you're gonna choke something that big is if you jam your entire arm down their throat and pray you last long enough.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colorado-runner-mountain-lion-attack-choke-video-travis-kauffman-fight-injuries-a8780381.html

That's how this guy did it. My right wrist has been shitty since I broke it back in college. I've already decided if I ever am in this situation, this is my plan. Jam the ole shitty wrist down his throat. If I live n have to amputate it, that wrist won't be missed much. It only brought pain anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was hiking in the Rockies with friends. We got to our next campsite when a group behind us asked if we'd noticed the massive kitty footprints along the muddy trail. No. No we had not.

You don't see or hear them when they're hunting until they want to be seen. It's incredible.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We have a bell on our cats collar precisely for this reason. It’s impossible to know where they are unless they want you to know otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried putting a bell on a cat once but he learned how to sneak without the bell jingling and would still bring home presents

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

At this point the bell is just so she doesn't get trod on.

For a big fat clumsy dunce she is lethally quiet without it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Went hiking by myself once up a mountain in Aspen about a week or 2 after a mountain lion attack. I was about 1000ft up from the base in the woods when I noticed it was too quiet. I questioned my judgment and turned my ass around and couldn't have gotten down that mountain any faster.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

What a fucking boss.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think it's hilarious just how unprepared anything is for how much getting suddenly beat the fuck up can hurt.

Humans are one of the only species that can spontaneously gang up and lay the smack down on ya.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Baboons gang up on leopards all the time, our genetic line has been ganging up on threads since we weren't even apes but monkeys. It's the age old tradition of forming a mob and curbstomping everything that brought us to the top of the food chain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Man, there's a war between feral monkeys and dogs in certain parts of the world. Like nothing has made me more angry at dogs than seeing an infant monkey in its jaws. It's the only time in my life I wanted to drop kick a dog.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it happend at india, and the monkeys took revenge on all the dogs at the village. You might be able to find some videos about the incident on youtube.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

You might be able to find some videos about the incident on youtube.

No. No, I don't think I will.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Ngl, the title had me questioning some very important details of the event there ...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't that make it 'hand-to-claw combat'?

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