Dog Saves Man From Mountain Lion

A friend told me an amazing story. She lives in a rural area where there are relatively few houses, surrounded by woods.

Not too long ago, she, her husband, and their dog were doing their usual morning walk in the woods. Just as they were about to go home, their black Rottweiler/Lab mix dog ran off. They called and called, but the dog was nowhere to be found.

They went home, thinking that the dog would be waiting for them by their front door. But the dog was not there. Since the dog had tags with their phone number, they hoped that someone would find the dog and would soon call.

Not too much later in the morning, their phone rang. The caller had found their dog and asked them to come.

When they came for the dog, the caller had a story to tell.

He was out alone, walking in the woods about four miles away from where my friend was walking with her dog.  He stopped near a pine tree and was startled to see a mountain lion on one of the lower branches, crouched and ready to pounce.

Suddenly, a large black dog ran up, positioned himself between the man and the tree, and began barking at the mountain lion. Then the dog started to herd the man toward his truck, always keeping himself between the mountain lion and the man.

When they got to the truck, the dog jumped in and settled down into the passenger seat. The man drove back to his house and called my friend and her husband to come and get their large black, Rottweiler/Lab dog.

But the story does not end there. The man explained that he was a Native American shaman, and had had a dream several nights before that he was attacked by a mountain lion and was saved by a large black dog.  He kept thanking the dog for saving him.

In terms of time, the dog would have had to have run the entire distance in a straight line to reach the man and the mountain lion when he did.

And having herded the man back to his truck, the dog was quite happy to be taken home.

Was it just coincidence? Or was it something else?

--Con Slobodchikoff

Comments

[Folding Dog Stairs]

Yeah its sounds unbelievable,but that dog did a great job.Congrats!!!!

[Randall Johnson]

This account is a reminder that there is still some wonder and mystery and magic in the world that cannot readily be explained by science. I'd like to hear what the shaman in question might have to say about it or, barring that, another North American shaman.