Just saw a video of a bobcat. I am an idiot.

I just realized that, when I was camping on a mountain, I got lucky. Possibly because I am dumb, in fact.

See, I thought I faced down a bobcat to save my fawn. He slept at my camp ever since I saved him from an eagle who was just starting to get them in the air. Shortly after he started shacking up with me, I noticed a (not) bobcat darting into my neck of the woods. "Hmm," I said, "never seen a (not) bobcat back there." Hmm indeed.

One night I entered the woods from the parking lot at like 10. When I broke through the brush and turned my head and lamp to the right, I found myself face to face with (not) a bocat, no more than 10 yards away. No more. This is the first time I didnt die. Now, because this was (not) a bobcat (supposedly a chill lil' fellow toward us bigger mammals), I behaved differently than I would/should have; and different was called for, cuz itt turns out I was face to face with a (real) mountain lion.

Then I just kinda stood there looking at him, wondering what to do with this four foot high (not) bobcat. And I thought. And all this time while too-calmiy taking my time with thinking, I didn't die again. THEN, I decided the only way to save my fawn again would be to drive off this (not) bobcat somehow, with absolutely no worry for my safety, cuz this is definitely a bobcat. At this point, I still haven't died. NOW I decide the way to drive it out of my part of the forest by shout-singing Hey Jude, beginning this from 10 yards or less away. I still didn't die. And it worked.

Once dumb, often dumb... I'm not entirely sure I'm good with my bear tactics either.