A woman in Oregon was having a normal morning when she went outside for a smoke and noticed a giant cougar resting on her neighbor’s roof!
Well, that’s surely something you don’t experience every single day.
Speaking about the incident, Alysha Sifford said to KMTR: “I was going out to start my cigarette when I saw it staring right at me.
“He or she looked mad. It stayed on the roof and watched me for a minute. I’m not afraid personally, just alarmed.”
Local media warned others to observe their surroundings and look out for a mean-looking cougar. But when the news reached Sifford’s neighbor, John Forrest, he just laughed!
Forrest said that the so-called cougar was just a stuffed lion and he had placed it on the roof himself.
“It’s my resin lion,” he explained. “We thought it was kind of cool so we mounted it on the roof.”
Forrest placed it up with his friend Dean Panther as a marketing strategy for Treasures Trondhjem, an antique business he runs and said the lion has been a real advantage to the business.
“Somebody posted a picture a couple of days ago. Thousands of people are reacting and sharing. It’s my house. People are calling me a liar – [saying] that it is photoshopped,” he added.
“One lady was screaming at me not to come out of the garage because there is a cougar on the roof. She was on the phone with 9-1-1.”
He then shared a photo of the plastic lion next to his dog on Facebook to let people know that it is completely safe to come close.
Local Police Chief Bob Webb said that nothing the entrepreneur was doing was illegal and the stuffed animal is free to stay on the roof as long as the owner wants.
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