Oregon Woman Finds Mountain Lion Napping In Her Home

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

From readers Richard and Michael, Foxnews:

An Oregon woman recently came home to an unusual surprise: a mountain lion, which continued taking a nap for six more hours behind her sofa.

The odd encounter took place on July 8 in the Ashland, Ore., home of Lauren Taylor.

After drinking from a pond in Taylor’s backyard, the cat likely entered her home through an open back door, she explained in Facebook. The post had garnered more than 17,000 reactions and shares as of Tuesday morning.

“This is wild,” she wrote. “The door was open and the room has huge plants and stairs built around real tree branches, so she likely didn’t even realize she was walking indoors until she was inside.”

After entering the home, the cat was startled by Taylor’s roommate, who screamed upon seeing the mountain lion. This prompted the wild animal to hide behind the sofa, where it snoozed for several hours.

Taylor made a noise to wake the feline, but then “gazed lovingly into her eyes, and communicated using feline-speak eye blinking to calm her,” she wrote.

“It was amazing to realize that this worked. I gazed lovingly then blinked hard and then she did it back,” Taylor continued, adding that the cat then went back to sleep. “She clearly felt safe and she showed no inclination to leave.”

When the cat awoke a second time, Taylor said she “again connected in a loving gaze and communicated trust through blinking.”

With just “a couple hours to dawn,” Taylor decided it was time to “prompt her to leave without alarming her so much that she panicked.”

The Oregon woman then used a drum to encourage the lion to exit the home.

“She roused and knew just what to do…. walking out through the open doors, through the yard, across the creek, and through the empty field behind us exactly as we had shown her,” said Taylor, adding she has “extensive experience working with energy and animals.”

“It was a perfect ending to a blessed encounter that could have been dangerous if approached from a lower frequency,” she continued. “May she stay safely in the hills to enjoy a long life as a wild and healthy lion.”

You can go check out the pictures and video yourself.  I just don’t know what to say.  Honestly.

Read again.

Taylor made a noise to wake the feline, but then “gazed lovingly into her eyes, and communicated using feline-speak eye blinking to calm her,” she wrote.

When the cat awoke a second time, Taylor said she “again connected in a loving gaze and communicated trust through blinking.”

“It was a perfect ending to a blessed encounter …

Lovingly.  Calm her.  Trust.  Blessed.

She’s fortunate the lion didn’t scalp her and eat her brains out of her skull.


Comments

  1. On July 25, 2018 at 11:27 pm, The Big Club said:

    Must be the cousin of Timothy Treadwell..
    But then again. maybe she is some kind of cat whisperer in touch with total zen and mysticism brought about from staring at the sun.
    anything is possible I have found.

  2. On July 26, 2018 at 7:52 am, Mark Matis said:

    She is indeed “fortunate the lion didn’t scalp her and eat her brains out of her skull.”

    Unfortunately, WE are not. Let me assure you that she votes. I’ll leave it to you to guess her political preferences. But with any luck, she might invite a bunch of her friends over next time the lion is in the house. And THAT might work out even better than if the lion had decided to have breakfast before leaving THIS time!

  3. On July 26, 2018 at 8:36 am, Frank Clarke said:

    I recall Daniel having a similar encounter with a big cat. Faith, we are told, can move mountains.

    OTOH, Twain holds that “Faith is a wonderful thing, but it’s skepticism that does all the work.” ;=)

  4. On July 26, 2018 at 9:38 am, Fred said:

    This will come as a shock to many but she does understand some cat behavior. What she doesn’t understand is several things outside of behavior and details beyond making friends with a cat.

    First, the cat had just eaten lots and lots of something probably large and it’s natural prey such as a deer. It needed to den up.

    Second, she was not in charge of anything during this encounter. This will be the mistake leading to a potentially fatal next time.

    Third, the cat knew it was in a house. This level stupidity from her is monumental. A cat can smell and hear your dumb ass from distances that are hard to fathom. It is not as strictly a visual hunter, as a human, but more so upon moving to make a kill. And the notion that the animal doesn’t know where the door is or how it got in is phenomenally stupid.

    Fourth, the animal in the video is in, all decisions are valid decisions mode. Although it looks rather calm it’s 100 percent ready for fight or flight.

    And about that next time. Although we don’t taste particularly good to each other the cat now knows exactly where to find a snack, a dumb, placid, servile, docile snack.

    Oh and Lady, you need to do something about the flea, mite, and deer ticks and eggs behind, in, and around your couch and your throw pillows. Or not, cuddle up where it did and feel the chakra.

    And most importantly, what have WE learned – I’m certain that instinctively the lady knew not to cut off its path of egress but intellectually she thought she should teach it how to get out. I’m telling y’all from my hearts heart, this disconnect from OUR nature is going to get a lot of people killed when our current unprecedented era of peace in North America comes to an end. Grok This Hard!

    Wondering what @Joshua thinks of this encounter?

  5. On July 26, 2018 at 10:22 am, Herschel Smith said:

    @Fred,

    Those were essentially my thoughts as well.

    The cat had just recently consumed something large. I wonder of that lady was around when the cat ripped the guts out of a deer and consumed them?

    The cat knew exactly where it was. It was in charge. The lady was not. It’s not that the cat “trusted” her, but rather [a] didn’t fear her, and [b] didn’t care to consume her because it had just done so and wasn’t hungry.

    The lady ascribed anthropomorphic characteristics to the cat. The cat didn’t give a shit about anything the lady was feeling. It’s a cat.

  6. On July 26, 2018 at 10:33 am, Gryphon said:

    Key to the Encounter was A) the Cat was not Hungry, and B) the Woman remained calm and obviously did not Threaten the Cat.

    Where are You in relation to the Nearest Gun in the House, Right Now?

  7. On July 26, 2018 at 12:52 pm, moe mensale said:

    Ashland, OR says it all. I lived in nearby Medford for a while. It’s an artsy college town in SW OR filed with lots of leftists who went to college there and stayed and/or moved in from northern CA. I won’t discount Fred’s comments because he’s correct but the lady is also an idiot who wants to be “in touch with the universe” as it were. Lots of them there. Too bad, it’s a nice little town otherwise. The good news is the next news story concerning her and big cats will show her vote cancelled out by the cat.

  8. On July 26, 2018 at 2:28 pm, Fred said:

    Actually @Herschel, it does have feelings. It feels like ripping the guts out of something and sticking it’s whole head inside the carcass to gorge itself and it feels like taking a nap so it has the energy to rip the cuts out of something else and eat that and it feels like making more little lions that will rip the guts out of something and eat those things. Why are you so insensitive to the poor little ‘blessed’ beast?

  9. On July 26, 2018 at 4:53 pm, TheAlaskan said:

    That story reminds me that our children see this all the time via cartoons and the like, where bears and lions and people, kids, all get along and hug each other. This story, circulating on social media, and now mainstream media finds fertile minds, conditioned by city-slicker culture, taking it all in as the REAL nature of things, the enlightenment if you will, of the modern Progressive. Indeed, Treadwell was the manifestation of such idiocy, and he was eaten, along with his girlfriend.

    Fact is, nature doesn’t give a shit. In the end, reality always wins…always.

  10. On July 26, 2018 at 5:23 pm, ROFuher said:

    At least this guy had the sense to keep his door closed.

    Colorado man spots 4 mountain lions lurking on porch: ‘It blew my mind’

    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/07/26/colorado-man-spots-4-mountain-lions-lurking-on-porch-it-blew-my-mind.html

  11. On July 27, 2018 at 10:17 am, Gryphon said:

    There’s a Picture out there somewhere of a Mountain Lion on a Snow-Covered Porch, looking through the Glass Door. It is Captioned “If You’re Cold, They’re Cold. Bring them Inside.”
    I’m Sure My Horse would Like that…

  12. On July 28, 2018 at 9:19 am, James said:

    Hmmm….,neat story but would definitely think twice about where I jogged early and looked like prey,4 of em,imagine if they hunted you in tandem.He says “[I’ve] never seen a mountain lion the whole time I’ve lived up here.”,make no mistake,they have seen you.A little common sense will go a long way and you can live among the big critters,am more worried about the 2 footed predators then the bears in my area, but,again,I have some respect for the bears,2 footed critters,not so much.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment


You are currently reading "Oregon Woman Finds Mountain Lion Napping In Her Home", entry #19721 on The Captain's Journal.

This article is filed under the category(s) Survival and was published July 25th, 2018 by Herschel Smith.

If you're interested in what else the The Captain's Journal has to say, you might try thumbing through the archives and visiting the main index, or; perhaps you would like to learn more about TCJ.

26th MEU (10)
Abu Muqawama (12)
ACOG (2)
ACOGs (1)
Afghan National Army (36)
Afghan National Police (17)
Afghanistan (704)
Afghanistan SOFA (4)
Agriculture in COIN (3)
AGW (1)
Air Force (40)
Air Power (10)
al Qaeda (83)
Ali al-Sistani (1)
America (22)
Ammunition (275)
Animals (282)
Ansar al Sunna (15)
Anthropology (3)
Antonin Scalia (1)
AR-15s (373)
Arghandab River Valley (1)
Arlington Cemetery (2)
Army (86)
Assassinations (2)
Assault Weapon Ban (28)
Australian Army (7)
Azerbaijan (4)
Backpacking (2)
Badr Organization (8)
Baitullah Mehsud (21)
Basra (17)
BATFE (218)
Battle of Bari Alai (2)
Battle of Wanat (18)
Battle Space Weight (3)
Bin Laden (7)
Blogroll (3)
Blogs (24)
Body Armor (23)
Books (3)
Border War (18)
Brady Campaign (1)
Britain (38)
British Army (35)
Camping (5)
Canada (17)
Castle Doctrine (1)
Caucasus (6)
CENTCOM (7)
Center For a New American Security (8)
Charity (3)
China (16)
Christmas (16)
CIA (30)
Civilian National Security Force (3)
Col. Gian Gentile (9)
Combat Outposts (3)
Combat Video (2)
Concerned Citizens (6)
Constabulary Actions (3)
Coolness Factor (3)
COP Keating (4)
Corruption in COIN (4)
Council on Foreign Relations (1)
Counterinsurgency (218)
DADT (2)
David Rohde (1)
Defense Contractors (2)
Department of Defense (210)
Department of Homeland Security (26)
Disaster Preparedness (5)
Distributed Operations (5)
Dogs (15)
Donald Trump (27)
Drone Campaign (4)
EFV (3)
Egypt (12)
El Salvador (1)
Embassy Security (1)
Enemy Spotters (1)
Expeditionary Warfare (17)
F-22 (2)
F-35 (1)
Fallujah (17)
Far East (3)
Fathers and Sons (2)
Favorite (1)
Fazlullah (3)
FBI (39)
Featured (189)
Federal Firearms Laws (18)
Financing the Taliban (2)
Firearms (1,758)
Football (1)
Force Projection (35)
Force Protection (4)
Force Transformation (1)
Foreign Policy (27)
Fukushima Reactor Accident (6)
Ganjgal (1)
Garmsir (1)
general (15)
General Amos (1)
General James Mattis (1)
General McChrystal (44)
General McKiernan (6)
General Rodriguez (3)
General Suleimani (9)
Georgia (19)
GITMO (2)
Google (1)
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1)
Gun Control (1,633)
Guns (2,298)
Guns In National Parks (3)
Haditha Roundup (10)
Haiti (2)
HAMAS (7)
Haqqani Network (9)
Hate Mail (8)
Hekmatyar (1)
Heroism (4)
Hezbollah (12)
High Capacity Magazines (16)
High Value Targets (9)
Homecoming (1)
Homeland Security (3)
Horses (2)
Humor (72)
Hunting (31)
ICOS (1)
IEDs (7)
Immigration (106)
India (10)
Infantry (4)
Information Warfare (4)
Infrastructure (4)
Intelligence (23)
Intelligence Bulletin (6)
Iran (171)
Iraq (379)
Iraq SOFA (23)
Islamic Facism (64)
Islamists (98)
Israel (19)
Jaish al Mahdi (21)
Jalalabad (1)
Japan (3)
Jihadists (81)
John Nagl (5)
Joint Intelligence Centers (1)
JRTN (1)
Kabul (1)
Kajaki Dam (1)
Kamdesh (9)
Kandahar (12)
Karachi (7)
Kashmir (2)
Khost Province (1)
Khyber (11)
Knife Blogging (7)
Korea (4)
Korengal Valley (3)
Kunar Province (20)
Kurdistan (3)
Language in COIN (5)
Language in Statecraft (1)
Language Interpreters (2)
Lashkar-e-Taiba (2)
Law Enforcement (6)
Lawfare (14)
Leadership (6)
Lebanon (6)
Leon Panetta (2)
Let Them Fight (2)
Libya (14)
Lines of Effort (3)
Littoral Combat (8)
Logistics (50)
Long Guns (1)
Lt. Col. Allen West (2)
Marine Corps (280)
Marines in Bakwa (1)
Marines in Helmand (67)
Marjah (4)
MEDEVAC (2)
Media (67)
Medical (146)
Memorial Day (6)
Mexican Cartels (41)
Mexico (61)
Michael Yon (6)
Micromanaging the Military (7)
Middle East (1)
Military Blogging (26)
Military Contractors (5)
Military Equipment (25)
Militia (9)
Mitt Romney (3)
Monetary Policy (1)
Moqtada al Sadr (2)
Mosul (4)
Mountains (25)
MRAPs (1)
Mullah Baradar (1)
Mullah Fazlullah (1)
Mullah Omar (3)
Musa Qala (4)
Music (25)
Muslim Brotherhood (6)
Nation Building (2)
National Internet IDs (1)
National Rifle Association (95)
NATO (15)
Navy (30)
Navy Corpsman (1)
NCOs (3)
News (1)
NGOs (3)
Nicholas Schmidle (2)
Now Zad (19)
NSA (3)
NSA James L. Jones (6)
Nuclear (62)
Nuristan (8)
Obama Administration (221)
Offshore Balancing (1)
Operation Alljah (7)
Operation Khanjar (14)
Ossetia (7)
Pakistan (165)
Paktya Province (1)
Palestine (5)
Patriotism (7)
Patrolling (1)
Pech River Valley (11)
Personal (72)
Petraeus (14)
Pictures (1)
Piracy (13)
Pistol (4)
Pizzagate (21)
Police (648)
Police in COIN (3)
Policy (15)
Politics (969)
Poppy (2)
PPEs (1)
Prisons in Counterinsurgency (12)
Project Gunrunner (20)
PRTs (1)
Qatar (1)
Quadrennial Defense Review (2)
Quds Force (13)
Quetta Shura (1)
RAND (3)
Recommended Reading (14)
Refueling Tanker (1)
Religion (491)
Religion and Insurgency (19)
Reuters (1)
Rick Perry (4)
Rifles (1)
Roads (4)
Rolling Stone (1)
Ron Paul (1)
ROTC (1)
Rules of Engagement (75)
Rumsfeld (1)
Russia (37)
Sabbatical (1)
Sangin (1)
Saqlawiyah (1)
Satellite Patrols (2)
Saudi Arabia (4)
Scenes from Iraq (1)
Second Amendment (668)
Second Amendment Quick Hits (2)
Secretary Gates (9)
Sharia Law (3)
Shura Ittehad-ul-Mujahiden (1)
SIIC (2)
Sirajuddin Haqqani (1)
Small Wars (72)
Snipers (9)
Sniveling Lackeys (2)
Soft Power (4)
Somalia (8)
Sons of Afghanistan (1)
Sons of Iraq (2)
Special Forces (28)
Squad Rushes (1)
State Department (23)
Statistics (1)
Sunni Insurgency (10)
Support to Infantry Ratio (1)
Supreme Court (52)
Survival (185)
SWAT Raids (57)
Syria (38)
Tactical Drills (38)
Tactical Gear (14)
Taliban (168)
Taliban Massing of Forces (4)
Tarmiyah (1)
TBI (1)
Technology (21)
Tehrik-i-Taliban (78)
Terrain in Combat (1)
Terrorism (96)
Thanksgiving (13)
The Anbar Narrative (23)
The Art of War (5)
The Fallen (1)
The Long War (20)
The Surge (3)
The Wounded (13)
Thomas Barnett (1)
Transnational Insurgencies (5)
Tribes (5)
TSA (24)
TSA Ineptitude (13)
TTPs (4)
U.S. Border Patrol (6)
U.S. Border Security (18)
U.S. Sovereignty (23)
UAVs (2)
UBL (4)
Ukraine (10)
Uncategorized (98)
Universal Background Check (3)
Unrestricted Warfare (4)
USS Iwo Jima (2)
USS San Antonio (1)
Uzbekistan (1)
V-22 Osprey (4)
Veterans (3)
Vietnam (1)
War & Warfare (412)
War & Warfare (41)
War Movies (4)
War Reporting (21)
Wardak Province (1)
Warriors (6)
Waziristan (1)
Weapons and Tactics (79)
West Point (1)
Winter Operations (1)
Women in Combat (21)
WTF? (1)
Yemen (1)

March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
December 2015
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
September 2013
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006

about · archives · contact · register

Copyright © 2006-2024 Captain's Journal. All rights reserved.