And it’s only January 4th:
It was already dark on Saturday evening and Austin had little time to react when he discovered the reason for Angel’s strange behaviour. The boy spotted what he first thought was a strange dog emerge from the shadows. Just two metres away, the cat charged at him.
“He was like: Aw, crap, it’s a cougar.”
But Angel was ready – the young dog leapt at the hungry cougar and “took the whack,” Mr. Forman said. The boy escaped inside his home while the two animals battled for several minutes. “The cougar was latched onto her head, you could hear both the dog and the cougar screaming. Then it went silent.”
This is why we have the Dainty Flower. I have the utmost admiration for the courage of the brave golden retriever, but if a similarly smallish cougar were ever to make the fatal mistake of running into Spacebunny’s Ridgeback, I’d fully expect to discover her outside happily crunching away on the dead cat’s skull.