The wisdom gleaned from his pet cat came to him, he said, as he was wrestling with the mountain lion– his wrist in its jaws, its teeth audibly grinding through his ligaments and tendons. Photograph: Karthikeyan Arumugam/EyeEm/GettyAfter a few minutes, the mountain lion had suffocated, Kauffman said. In a video interview played during the news conference, Kauffman said after the mountain lion attacked, he threw his arms up and tried to protect his face. All along, Kauffman said later, he had feared that the young mountain lion’s mother would come along and end the fight. Wildlife officials said Thursday that they had trapped two other young mountain lions in the days after Kauffman was ambushed and that both appeared to have been hungry.

Source: The Irish Times February 15, 2019 08:37 UTC