Give me a blessed break.....
One of the neighbors whose property adjoins ours called this afternoon and told me that both she and her husband have seen a large cougar in their yard. And it wasn't a lawn ornament, it was a living, breathing, walking, hunting cougar, for goodness sake. Jeez.... as if I didn't have enough to look for while I'm outside... with one eye looking up for spider webs and the other eye looking down for snakes. Now I've got to be looking out for a cougar as well.
Other neighbors told us that they noticed very big paw prints in their yard the day after we had that heavy rain last week. The prints were in the mud, and they thought they were bigger prints than a coyote would make...... so now I'm thinking that maybe this cougar had been in their yard as well.
After we first moved here, the neighbor across the road told me that if we had cats, we needed to bring them inside at night or they would disappear... and then he showed us a photo of the cougar he shot on his property the year before. The darn thing was huge.... just huge.... zoo-worthy, in its own enclosure, that's how big it was. No one else had mentioned seeing any cougar or bob-cat since then, so of course if no one is talking about those things, you tend to forget.
A cougar, of all things. A cougar. Jeez..... I may never go outside again.
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