# What to do when confronted by a Cougar - in your kitchen?  (pics)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 24, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-confronted-by-a-cougar-in-your-kitchen-pics/442525 "2008-03-24T14:42:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-confronted-by-a-cougar-in-your-kitchen-pics/442525/41 "2008-03-25T18:42:19Z")

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I’d be thrilled to have something like that happen. Thrilled and armed. I like wild animals but I’m no fool.

When I lived in Eastern Oregon there were cougars around enough that I recall one having to be shot out of a tree in front of the local grade school one winter.

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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-confronted-by-a-cougar-in-your-kitchen-pics/442525/42 "2008-03-26T00:27:37Z")

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Never mind what I _would_ do (answer: shit my pants). What _should_ I do in a situation like that?

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**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-confronted-by-a-cougar-in-your-kitchen-pics/442525/43 "2008-03-26T10:46:17Z")

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[QUOTE=Musicat]  
A cougar in the kitchen, dunno. But if called by a panther, according to Ogden Nash…

Don’t anther.  
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If called by a cougar…get your Luger.

I’d look at the cat, next time he does something you don’t like, and ask, “Do I have to get my big friend to pay another visit? Next time, you’re going OUTSIDE!”

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**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-confronted-by-a-cougar-in-your-kitchen-pics/442525/44 "2008-03-26T12:55:21Z")

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What woud I do?, I´d quickly gather my family and pets, head to the kitchen door, slam it open and… shove them out so the cougar will have something to play with while I run away screaming like a little girl.

What? :dubious:

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