Poor kid. Glad he’ll be ok.
Dad screwed up. He should have given the kid the credit, said the kid fought the lion off with a punch to the face. Kid coulda gone back to school strutting like a rooster. Might have set him up for some amazing badassery success in life.
Wow, it sounds like California is serious about catching that cat... What, is the boy black or something?
Now that boy is going to have one great story to tell everybody while growing up.
I can just picture his first date. “I got bit on the rump by a mountain lion when I was 7 years old.”
Just picture him as a grandpa with grandkids on his knee. “Let me tell you about the time a mountain lion bit my butt when I was your age. You kids have it so easy today!”
“Oh grandpa, there you go again!”
Impossible
Cougar bears wolves sharks don’t hurt people that’s a right wing fascist white supremists dimestic terrorist conspiracy theory.
Just ask any gov or state wildlife biologist.
We can learn much from animals,, I hear they know how to travel faster than light .
This is usually the behavior of young hungry cats. Mature cats with food will stay away from people.
Damn cougar wasn’t wearing its GPS collar; thank God it had a mask on at least.
In 1990, California banned the hunting of Mountain Lions. Now they have them out the wazoo!
Don’t let the cat bite your butt on the way out the door
Bad kitty!
“...walking up stairs at Pico Canyon Park near Santa Clarita around dusk...”
The father trailed a small prey animal (his son) behind him in a wilderness park at many predators’ preferred time to hunt. California Parks have all sorts of information and warnings about this sort of behavior. He put his son in mortal danger, and the mountain lion too. Great work dumbass.
Instead of saying he will paddle his butt the father in the future will say to the boy “I will have a mountain lion bite you on your butt if you do not do your chores!”
Hidden mountain lion watches runner in Ojai, California
https://twitter.com/closecalls7/status/1575335773519630336