Tips to keep you safe if you encounter a …
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Following these general guidelines will reduce the risk of cougar conflict: Do not hike or jog alone. Maintain awareness in cougar country while hiking or jogging and avoid using headphones that block out your surroundings. Travel in groups and keep everyone together, including children and dogs. Make noise while hiking to alert cougars of your presence. If you encounter a cougar, keep calm and never run. Make yourself look as large as possible and back away slowly, keeping the cougar in view, and allowing a clear exit for the cougar. If attacked, always fight back and never “play dead”. If travelling with small children, pick them up immediately. Hike in groups of two or more, and make enough noise to avoid suprising a cougar Be extremely alert when biking in cougar country – a human on a bike looks like a deer running
Do not hike or jog alone.
Maintain awareness in cougar country while hiking or jogging and avoid using headphones that block out your surroundings.
Travel in groups and keep everyone together, including children and dogs.
Make noise while hiking to alert cougars of your presence.
If you encounter a cougar, keep calm and never run.
Make yourself look as large as possible and back away slowly, keeping the cougar in view, and allowing a clear exit for the cougar.
If attacked, always fight back and never “play dead”.
If travelling with small children, pick them up immediately.
Hike in groups of two or more, and make enough noise to avoid suprising a cougar
Be extremely alert when biking in cougar country – a human on a bike looks like a deer running
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