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Woman comes home and finds a giant mountain lion napping behind her sofa
"This is wild."
Rachel Shapiro
08.05.21

Lauren Taylor is a woman who lives in a lovely house in Oregon with a roommate. Like most people, she enjoys having people over every in a while.

But when an unexpected guest appeared at her house, she was very surprised!

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Lauren Taylor via Facebook
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Lauren Taylor via Facebook

She had come home thinking it was just another ordinary day, but a closer look revealed a very interesting surprise – a mountain lion was asleep behind her sofa!

Lauren speculates that the big cat probably entered her home through a backdoor that was left open. She thinks the mountain lion may have taken a drink from a pond in her backyard prior to entry.

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Lauren Taylor via Facebook
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Lauren Taylor via Facebook

The home is set up in a very special way – to look just like nature.

Her staircase is built around actual tree branches and is also decorated with huge potted plants. The large cat probably didn’t even know she was indoors!

Upon gaining entry to the home, the mountain lion was startled by Lauren’s roommate. She screamed as her eyes met the mountain lion’s, to which the lion responded by hiding behind the sofa.

The animal then decided to stay right where it was and took a nap for several hours.

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Lauren Taylor via Facebook
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Lauren Taylor via Facebook

Lauren recounted the story on her personal Facebook page. She was not afraid in the least. A woman with knowledge of animals, Lauren wanted to remember this encounter as something spiritual and blessed. The story garnered over 17,000 views, and even captured the attention of Fox News.

She urged others not to interact with mountain lions, and advised that cats are “extremely psychic and perceptive.”

“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,” Lauren wrote on Facebook.

Lauren took this opportunity to communicate with the big cat. She went outside and looked in the living room window at the animal.




According to Fox News, Taylor made a noise to wake up the feline and then used blinking eye cat-speak to communicate.

She kept the mountain lion calm, even after her housemate had come outdoors to see what Lauren was doing. The feline ultimately just decided to keep on sleeping! She was very relaxed and calm in Lauren’s home.

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Lauren Taylor via Facebook
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Lauren Taylor via Facebook

Lauren knew she had to act fast to get the mountain lion out and back into nature, where she belonged. She tried to communicate with the animal but without results. After some thought, it was decided that the best way to gently awaken the lion was by using drums.

This would hopefully allow her to leave without panic. Lauren began calmly drumming. The experience was almost magical – the animal gently awoke, and made her way out the door, over the creek, and through the nearby empty field.

The experience was what Lauren called “blessed.” It was a good thing that nobody, including the mountain lion, was hurt during the ordeal.

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Lauren Taylor via Facebook
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Lauren Taylor via Facebook

Lauren feels confident that her visitor won’t be coming back. She also urged the people reading her viral post to leave wild animals be:

“Please Never put out food for bears or mountain lions. This seems obvious with cougars since they eat freshly killed prey, but the same goes for bears. We don’t want wild mountain lions or bears to associate humans with food, because they may start aggressively pursuing human interaction or food sources.”

Well said! If you’d like to some of the incredible footage Lauren caught of the mountain lion, check it out below.




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