We have no reason to believe that this is a hoax,” said Rebecca Ferrell, spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

The man - who is his 30s and has yet to be publicly identified - was released from a hospital Tuesday morning after being treated for bite wounds and lacerations to his face and arms. Officials caught two other mountain lions in the area after the incident.The bloodied Colorado trail runner who fought off a rare mountain lion attack pummeled the young cat with a rock, wrestled it to the ground and ultimately choked the animal to death with his hands, arms and feet, state wildlife officials said Tuesday. I feel like I made all the right decision,' he says. 'I feel really fortunate it turned out the way it did. 'I had no choice but to strangle it to death,' Mr Kauffman says.Īfter that, he managed to get to safety and, with the help of strangers, got to hospital where had more than a dozen stitches to wounds all over his body. He then strangled the animal with its bare hands. He pinned down the mountain lion and used a rock as a weapon to hit in the head. It was then he entered fight or flight mode, CBS reports. 'It grabbed on to my hand and wrist from there it started to claw at my face and neck,' he told American media. Lions, tigers and a jaguar escape zoo enclosures.Foolish safari tourist pets lion's head through car window.Mountain lion enters house, kills pet cat.Colorado runner strangles mountain lion after it attacks him.'I turned around and just was pretty bummed out to see a mountain lion chasing after me,' he said.

A man who was attacked by a mountain lion in Colorado has spoken of his ordeal for the first time.Īcting in self-defence, Travis Kauffman managed to escape by killing the juvenile cougar with his bare hands when it attacked him in the Horsetooth Mountain Open Space, a mountain park less than 110 km from Denver.

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