of course, if you’re Rick Perry you just shoot the mountain lion with the gun you jog with for some odd reason.
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Coyotes are far more civilized.
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An 80-pound juvenile could be underweight; males apparently average 150 pounds and females 90 pounds. So maybe it was injured/ill? (That could maybe explain how this guy could strangle it? If it was rabid, it could explain why the mountain lion didn’t break off the attack under threat of losing its life.)
Also, mountain lions are well used to playing “how not to be seen,” as they regularly avoid humans, just as they’ve avoided bears and wolves for thousands of years so as not to be killed by these apex predators. A human alone might be too tempting for some of them, however.
https://cpw.state.co.us/learn/Pages/LivingwithWildlifeLion2.aspx
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I know some part of my outdoor wear from that time forward would contain a whole lot of dead kitty hide. Maybe he could get some kind of little recording thing that speaks dead kitty and suggests running away at great speed might be a good idea.
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But if you’ve skinned the chicken, your grip was probably too strong.
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I hear some cougars pay extra for that!
I’ll show myself out…
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The ol’ Frankentoss.
Yes, please do. 
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Choking out an 80 pound lion does not sound like a very easy thing to do. I wonder if this guy had any defense training.
I was attacked by a bear at a gay campground. I just beat him off.
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juvenile mountain lion
So… a kitten? “Athlete strangles kitten to death” doesn’t quite read the same way.
(I kid, obviously not a kitten. 80 pounds is a big boi.)
I guess that makes sense - if the animal is small enough to cover with your thumb, all distances are safe distances, because that’s a teeny tiny little critter that can’t hurt you. Unless it’s venomous, I guess. Though a mountain lion small enough to cover with your thumb, that’s some mad scientist shit right there, so maybe it’s radioactive or something, so you should be worried about that.
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Crazy story. Reminded me of Gene Moe who, at 69, fought and killed a 750 lb Kodiak brown bear with a buck knife
https://shouldersofgiants.com/2016/07/24/ultimate-bear-story/
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This is not a wonderful thing.
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What if the animal has already eaten both of your thumbs
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Well, you’d better do that, then. You’ll be fine. 
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Did the runner previously strangle two pythons in his crib?
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And don’t think it wasn’t appreciated.
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