Last Sunday night, Oregon resident Lauren Taylor entered her living room — and was met with quite the unusual surprise.
A pair of yellow-brown eyes were staring up at her from behind the couch.
It was a mountain lion.
After drinking from a fountain in the yard, the inquisitive cat entered the house right away, perhaps because the rear door had been left open. The lion fled behind the sofa when Taylor’s flatmate screamed when she first saw the creature.
Taylor, who has experience in energy healing as well as animal rescue, was aware that they would need to give the cat a lot of room and maintain their composure in order to persuade her to go in safety. When Taylor noticed the lion was dozing, she crept outside to keep an eye on him via the window.
“Originally the lion was frightened, agitated and determined to exit through a closed window,” Taylor wrote on Facebook. “Once the energy shifted, she calmed down.”
As the minutes passed on, and Taylor remained outside, the lion continued to sleep. Eventually she woke up and noticed the human staring in at her. Taylor began blinking slowly at her — which in feline body language signifies that you pose no threat.
“I gazed lovingly, then blinked hard and then she did it back,” Taylor said. “Then, she went back to sleep.”
The lion proceeded to sleep behind the sofa for nearly another six hours as Taylor stayed outdoors.
As morning approached, Taylor explained, “we needed to persuade her to depart without scaring her to the point where she panicked.” She and her roommates gently unlocked a few more doors, and from a secure vantage point at the top of the stairs, she began quietly tapping a drum.
She left as quickly as the lion arrived.
Taylor remained outside for nearly six more hours as the lion continued napping behind the couch.
“It was just a couple hours to dawn and we needed to prompt her to leave without alarming her so much that she panicked,” Taylor said. She and her housemates slowly opened a few more doors and started lightly tapping a drum from a safe vantage point at the top of the stairs.
As quick as the lion came, she left.
Taylor added, “She awoke and knew just what to do.” “Exactly as we had showed her, [she] strolled through the open doors, into the yard, across the creek, and past the empty field behind us.”
Taylor is positive that the lion was only passing through, despite the animal’s obvious signals that it was at ease in her house. She probably wandered into the neighborhood because of previous wildfires that had occurred in the region.
The humbling experience, though, is one that Taylor won’t soon forget.
“I am hopeful and confident this cougar will not be back,” Taylor said. “It was a perfect ending to a blessed encounter that could have been dangerous if approached from a lower frequency [of energy]. May she stay safely in the hills to enjoy a long life as a wild and healthy lion.”
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