Out our way, now and then folks have to deal with cougars. I recall a jogger who was attacked from behind by a mountain lion … and later on, a hunter who, while hunting elk, was being hunted himself. In both cases, the attacks came from behind.
I had two run-ins with lions over the years, but I was not alone. True, I did not know the lions were there — but Doc, my quarter horse — and Jack, my Rez dog did. Long before an attack was possible, the big cats had been spotted and the sneak attacks thwarted.
I recall that scripture: “He watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps.” In this day and...