On July 8th, a woman named Lauren Taylor got on the FaceBook and posted pictures and videos of an apparent wild mountain lion snoozing on and behind her couch.
Apparently, the mountain lion was so cozy in Lauren’s house that is took a 6 hour power nap. After the power-nap was concluded the mountain lion simply got up and wandered out into the world as Lauren played the drums.
Yes, that is right, Lauren played the drums as it was leaving.
Chick can keep a beat!
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Lauren’s Post Is Going Viral
Lauren’s mountain lion post is blowing up the Interwebs. As of this writing her FaceBook post has 18,596 shares and is starting to get traction on all of the national fake media sites (The Onion is the only real news site).
Why Is My Inner Skeptic Sense Tingling?
On the surface this story looks legit. The pics and videos that Lauren posted definitely look authentic – there is certainly a mountain lion in her pad.
Yet, I’m skeptical.
Let me explain…
Skeptical Thought 1
Here is Lauren’s description of how the mountain lion got into her residence:
“This cat was drinking from our large fountain/pond that’s right at the back door before she came in. The door was open and the room has huge plants & stairs built around real tree branches, so she likely didn’t even realize she was walking indoors until she was inside. She immediately tried to leave through a closed window, became frightened when someone screamed, and hid behind the sofa.”
Then, upon the mountain lion entering the residence, Lauren states that the mountain lion somehow got relaxed enough to, ya know, sleep for 6 hours:
“The last video I shared below shows her leaving peacefully after calming down and napping behind the sofa for over six hours.”
A friggin’ mountain lion was trapped in their residence, someone screamed at it, and then it promptly napped for 6 hours? Hmmm…
I cannot refute that the cat was taking a snooze as the pictures are proof of that. Why though?
Was it recently tranquilized?
Or sick?
Did it have too many Mickey’s Big Mouths?
I mean, I can often be found sleeping out in the bushes after a big mouth bender. That is a quality malt liquor, it is!
It’s just odd that a trapped and panicked mountain lion would sleep for 6 hours in someone’s home without a very good reason. I can barely sleep for 6 hours in my own bed under the best of conditions!
And by bed I, of course, mean hyperbaric chamber.
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Skeptical Thought 2
This has nothing to do with Lauren’s cougar post, but more about Lauren’s profile in general. There is something suspicious going on there.
Lauren’s previous five FaceBook posts had a total of 87 shares. 87!
I’m not a hater on the engagement of her posts, quite the opposite.
A regular non-influencer getting 87 shares for random posts seems strange. Throw in the 18,596 shares for the cougar post…I’m wondering how all of these shares are possible.
Go add up your last 50 posts and count how many shares you got. Was it 87? No, it wasn’t.
Maybe Lauren has a friend network that loves sharing her posts. Maybe something weird is going on here. I don’t know, but I’m skeptical.
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Skeptical Thought 3
Let us just say that there are some non-scientific items in her cougar post describing the entire event. And by non-scientific I mean pure crazy-talk.
Her full post is below and I have highlighted some of the juicier non-scientific parts:
“This is wild. There’s a mountain lion in our living room. Loving her to peace so she’ll go out safely.
Update: (Spoiler alert!)
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The last video I shared below shows her leaving peacefully after calming down and napping behind the sofa for over six hours. I’m adding this here, along with the photos and videos of her snuggling and sleeping, because they’ve become buried behind other comments and I feel a responsibility to get this out so as not to sow fear. I’ve been urged to point out that I have extensive experience working with energy and animals and I’m not suggesting anyone seek out interactions with mountain lions.
I also want to make sure people get the important lesson here about frequency and attunement. Cats are extremely psychic and perceptive of energy and this lion could have been dangerous in an energy field of fear or anger. In fact, before I consciously elevated the energy field and entrained her to a theta state, a housemate had shouted and slammed a door upon seeing her and the lion was frightened, agitated, and determined to exit through a closed window. Once the energy shifted, she calmed down.
When she was so quiet and it was obvious from the position of her feet on the wall that she was laying down, I went outside to see through the window what she was doing. She was sleeping! When I made noise, she woke up and looked startled so I consciously raised my frequency, gazed lovingly into her eyes, and communicated using feline-speak eye blinking to calm her. It was amazing to realize that this worked. I gazed lovingly then blinked hard and then she did it back! Then, she went back to sleep.
She clearly felt safe and she showed no inclination to leave. When she woke again,I again connected in a loving gaze and communicated trust through blinking. My housemate came out and the lion became very alert to a new person. I explained about the energy and the blinking and she dropped into her heart, blinked, and the lion blinked back at her, relaxed, and curled up to sleep some more.
It was just a couple hours to dawn and we needed to prompt her to leave without alarming her so much that she panicked. I sent telepathic pictures of the routes out of the house via open doors and the route out the backyard, across the creek, through an open field, and back up into the hills. We got guidance that the way to rouse her and get her to leave her safe spot behind the sofa without panicking was through drumming.
We called in native ancestors’ support and started drumming. She roused and knew just what to do…. walking out through the open doors, through the yard, across the creek, and through the empty field behind us exactly as we had shown her [Editor Note – shown her telepathically].
It was a perfect ending to a blessed encounter that could have been dangerous if approached from a lower frequency. Thank you for seeing and honoring the spirit of the encounter and this beautiful and powerful animal.
– Lauren 
Addendum: To people suggesting putting out food: No!
Please Never put out food for bears or mountain lions. We do not want mountain lions or bears to associate humans with food [Editor Note – what about having mountain lions view a human’s couch as a super comfy place to take a nap?].
This cat was drinking from our large fountain/pond that’s right at the back door before she came in. The door was open and the room has huge plants & stairs built around real tree branches, so she likely didn’t even realize she was walking indoors until she was inside. She immediately tried to leave through a closed window, became frightened when someone screamed, and hid behind the sofa. While it’s important that animals have water sources during fire season, I would not suggest putting water sources right near a door or in a thoroughfare.
I am hopeful and confident this cougar will not be back. She was urged telepathically to go straight back through the open field into the hills and never come into town again for her own safety. And she did go straight through the open field, away from homes when she left! … May she stay safely in the hills to enjoy a long life as a wild and healthy lion.
-Lauren”
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Conclusion
Honestly, I don’t know what to conclude.
The pictures and videos tell a compelling story. If you don’t have the kind of brain that asks probing questions then enjoy this human-wildlife interaction.
If you do have the kind of brain that asks probing questions then maybe your inner skeptic is questioning the validity of this tale too. There just isn’t enough evidence presented in the post to call Bravo Sierra on this. There is just enough weirdness to make you go hmmm.
Now, if you will excuse me I have to get back to my Mickey’s big mouth and the other kind of cougar that lingers on couches. You know the kind.
