The mountain lion does not watch TV. He stares unwaveringly at the smallest person, or child, in the room. Someone next to me has been pegged as the runt in our pack of prey….

His tail is quite long (1/3 of its total length) for balance, and it is thicker than the arm you see in the picture. It brushed by my head after this photo, when the cat turned around.

27 responses to “Predator’s Gaze”

  1. Robi M Avatar
    Robi M

    Nice kitty… …

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  2. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    you should hear it purr… subwoofer purring.

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  3. angry shock Avatar
    angry shock

    Puuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…

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  4. KitschKat Avatar
    KitschKat

    that is a VERY BIG KITTY!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!! 🙂

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  5. Vanita Avatar
    Vanita

    Subwoofer Purring…

    I know just what you mean by this! ‘-}
    :

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  6. bodhi47 Avatar
    bodhi47

    anybody ever told you that you are nuts? i mean, I love cats and predators of all kinds, but c’mon! one doesn’t bring them home for dinner!

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  7. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Bodhi47: nuts? all the time. Like when I climb the dish.

    Vanita: the husband snores, eh?

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  8. BenODen Avatar
    BenODen

    He’s beautiful. What was the ocassion to get to visit such a stunning animal close up?

    WOW.

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  9. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    cat party.

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  10. Genista Avatar
    Genista

    It’s not sitting on the floor – or is it?

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  11. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    on a table…. so it could jump on our heads…

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  12. Genista Avatar
    Genista

    Ah, what a relief. I had pictured this cat sitting on the floor, and got mortally afraid of ever going into the hills again. Now I’m just uncomfortable.

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  13. Eric Rolph Avatar
    Eric Rolph

    I guess, keeping a wolf is similar in many ways. A few buddies of mine in Alaska had half-wolf and one kept a wolf, raised from someone who bred them — not easy to manage.

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  14. hitme1 Avatar
    hitme1

    Now we should be scared

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  15. andrea z Avatar
    andrea z

    I keep imagining what your sofa must look like.

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  16. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    "Now I’ve got $2000 worth of cat toys, and you can’t return them because they’ve got cat spit all over them!"
    – Steve Martin

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  17. artwitness Avatar
    artwitness

    Thanks. That’s my favorite Steve Martin routine!

    What the hell do you use for catnip on a thing like that? Ikea couches soaked in Vodka or what?

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  18. spotted cobweb Avatar
    spotted cobweb

    Purrr "D" scary to me, to have this in the house:-)…Lovely to know it trustes you…:-)

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  19. martytdx Avatar
    martytdx

    very cool – I’m amazed you have it at your house.

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  20. Johanna Hernandez (Jossu) Avatar
    Johanna Hernandez (Jossu)

    not exactly meant to be a PET! wtf!

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  21. gem66 Avatar
    gem66

    Absolutely beautiful and absolutely scary. We have them wild, here in Arizona. They very seldom attack people, but once one does, it goes on doing it. You know the rest. Can’t have a predator of humans on the loose.

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  22. roschler Avatar
    roschler

    I’ll never forget what a professional lion trainer (for commercials not circus acts), said to the host on a TV show. The host asked, "how can I know when the cat is about to attack?" The trainer asked "just look to see if I have bolted from the room."

    Wiser words I have never heard! 🙂

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  23. boring fact Avatar
    boring fact

    No…you’ve had this experience? It’s my dream, totally awesome

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  24. dr_loplop Avatar
    dr_loplop

    Maybe if there was something better on the telly…

    Thanks for posting to the Somebody else’s discerning mountain lion group!

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  25. tomesphotos Avatar
    tomesphotos

    I thought it must have been stuffed. It’s a beauty but keeping a cat like that is only asking for BIG trouble.

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  26. tifotter Avatar
    tifotter

    I thought you would appreciate this. Apparently the cougars are planning something…

    Rare photo shows 8 cougars on game trail
    seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014261221_couga…

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  27. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    awesome night capture. I was hoping I’d catch one when I had a critter cam setup…

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