OT: Oh Sure, I Believe This Is real

[RockyMTblue2]

Oregon woman finds mountain lion napping in her home: 'This is wild'

Napped for hours behind the sofa huh? Uh huh, right. Wild, right.

 

[MilfordHusky]

I think someone is lion.

 

[Bama fan]

I think someone is lion.

That may have been New-Gene Ledbetter's house.

 

[CL82]

I think someone is lion.

Just a cougar looking for attention.

(Somewhere in the near future someone is going to look in the face of a mountain lion, make eye contact while blinking gently, right before they become Lil' Friskies.)

 

[Bama fan]

Oregon woman finds mountain lion napping in her home: 'This is wild'

Napped for hours behind the sofa huh? Uh huh, right. Wild, right.

If you read the article, which is a lot to ask, she tells us that she communicated with the big cat using "feline- speak eye blinking". How could you disbelieve a tale told with such creative enthusiasm?

 

[RockyMTblue2]

If you read the article, which is a lot to ask, she tells us that she communicated with the big cat using "feline- speak eye blinking". How could you disbelieve a tale told with such creative enthusiasm?

Yup, I saw that and knew their meeting was surely fated! Meow....

 

[VAMike23]

This one is real tho....yikes!

[it appeared first in a National Geographic story back in 2005]

 

[CL82]

In California they are meaningfully gazing into the eyes of mountain lions...

Meanwhile back in New Jersey -
She had no choice but to reach down, grab its snout with one hand and use her other hand to strangle the animal.

 

[BIGMAC]

I would like to comment on the article , but the 'Cats' got my tongue.

 

[willtalk]

They lady had put on her husbands magnification glasses by mistake so what she mistook for a cougar was actually the neighbors tan Burmese.

 

[EricLA]

The cat was startled when her roommate saw it and screamed but... "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."

I was going to take that course in college (feline-speak), but decided on Spanish instead. It was a tough call tho. The teacher kept gazing lovingly in to my eyes, and eye-blinked to calm my nerves...

 

[MilfordHusky]

This one is real tho....yikes!

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[it appeared first in a National Geographic story back in 2005]

In the words of Roy Scheider, "You're going to need a bigger boat!"

 

[maddoggy]

While there is a LOT in her piece that strikes me as silly, feline eye-blink communication is an actual thing. Essentially, a cat that blinks slowly is indicating that he or she trusts you not to attack immediately. A human or animal who acknowledges that by responding with a slow blink is saying "I trust you too." There are those who go further and say a slow blink is a kind of "kitty kiss." I'm not one of them, but I have experienced instances where a fearful cat will calm down when given slow blinks, especially when combined with a non-threatening body posture.

 

[Blueballer]

While there is a LOT in her piece that strikes me as silly, feline eye-blink communication is an actual thing. Essentially, a cat that blinks slowly is indicating that he or she trusts you not to attack immediately. A human or animal who acknowledges that by responding with a slow blink is saying "I trust you too." There are those who go further and say a slow blink is a kind of "kitty kiss." I'm not one of them, but I have experienced instances where a fearful cat will calm down when given slow blinks, especially when combined with a non-threatening body posture.

Yes there is such a thing. I have used it myself. But have found not all cats respond to it. Certainly wouldn't want to roll the dice trying to make friends with a Mountain Lion!