'She wasn't scared a bit'

[Nuclear Unicorn]

'She wasn't scared a bit': How girl ELEVEN grabbed gun and shot dead cougar that was stalking her brother, 13, outside their house

When Thomas White spotted a cougar approaching his teenage son outside their home in rural Washington state last week, there was only one thing to do - hand a gun to his 11-year-old daughter.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568771/Girl-11-shoots-cougar-following-brother-14-home-making-THIRD-mountain-cat-killed-one-week.html#ixzz2uY1oDCYq

Although when cougars do this sort of thing they're generally stalking drug dens. I think. Okay, I made that last part up.

[Common Sense Party]

1. Shelby get your gun.

That was a scrawny cougar.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. How many scrawny cougars have you wrassled?

[Common Sense Party]

3. None. And I hope never to do so.

They're the hungriest.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. Start with belly rubs. Everything should be OK. You got this.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Filing in my "think about the children" folder.

Except that in this case they are actually children, not the convenient "new" definition of child (remind me, is it 0-25 years old now?) used in "studies".

[Eleanors38]

5. A little amusing. When in extremis, Shelby gets the duty

because she had a permit!

In Texas, cougars are considered vermin, and there is no regulated sport hunting.

Sounds like these cats ran out of prey in their territories and were going for what was available: Us. I've always supported wolf and big cat re-introduction... and the hunting/management that goes with it.