Lake Leland: Horse credited with protecting owner from cougar

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, July 15, 2003

A Lake Leland woman credits her horse with protecting her from a cougar during an encounter Sunday evening at a Lake Leland-area farm.

The hair-raising encounter has Beth Bartlett hoping she never hears the sound a cougar makes while stalking its prey.

“It sounded like a combination of a lady being mugged and a baby crying,” said Bartlett, who raises horses on a ranch at 289215 Highway 101.

“It was God-awful. I hope I never hear it again.”

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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.