Originally published at: Colorado mountain lion claws at man sitting in a hot tub | Boing Boing
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It simply misunderstands the rules of Marco Polo.
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(Wondering what kind of soup big cats like best)
ETA: Catspacho!
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Probably stew. It just didn’t wait long enough. 
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attacks may be “trending upward” as more people encroach on mountain lion territory — moving into houses that were once home to the cats.
Some mountain lions were living in houses? That were then occupied by humans? 
My real question: I thought the movement was more the other way – that like a lot of other animals (like geese, turkeys, deer, and foxes), wild cats are increasingly moving into areas of high people density.
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Ironically, that was the guy’s name.
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I’d be even more worried if it had stirred the hot tub with a big wooden spoon.
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“Hey Bob, how was your weekend?”
“I was relaxing in a hot tub when a cougar pounced on me and raked her nails across my flesh.”
“Niiiice.”
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Dammit, who gave that cat some Cialis? 
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At least it wasn’t a weasel.
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In Colorado I once watched a lynx get on our neighbor’s porch, look in their windows, and then take a nap on their swing. Maybe she was the original owner? 
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happy to see that everyone here was on my same wavelength, lol. my first thought was the cat thinking, “MMMmmm, SOUP!”
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Lions, snokes, gooses, poodles… when animals atack!
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Several times when sleeping at other people’s houses I’ve woken up by their cat running its claws through my hair. Maybe the mountain lion was following a similar impulse.
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An obvious sequal to Cocaine Bear : Cialis Cougar.
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For what it is worth, hunting lions contributes to incidents like this.
It is impossible to sex a lion from a distance and most females have cubs as they care for them a long time. You end up killing mama lions and the off spring never learn to live on their own, so easy prey like cats, dogs, people end up being one way to survive.
We also know lions have lived in densely populated areas for decades with very few incidents as normally they just keep to themselves and their natural prey.
If one wants to control the population, rando’s hunting them (usually with dogs, aka, sit around and drink coffee until you hear your hounds have one treed) is counter productive.
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The man was left with scratches on his head and ear, but not serious enough for a hospital visit.
If we had a healthcare system that didn’t saddle the individual with crippling debt for routine outpatient visits I bet he would have gone to the hospital.
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Came for the cougar joke, was not disappointed!
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