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A Vancouver Island woman played a song by heavy metal band Metallica to scare off a stalking cougar.
Denise Gallant was hiking on a logging road near Duncan with her dog late last month when she felt something was following them.
“When I look over to my right, there he was,” Gallant told CTV News. “The cougar.”
“Get out of here! Go on! Get! Bad kitty!” she yelled, but the big cat kept following.
So she turned to heavy metal to scare the cat away.
“I went through my ITunes and thought 'what’s the loudest most impactful song I can get?'” Gallant said.
When she played Metallica’s Don’t Tread On Me at full volume, the wild animal took off.
“The first three, four notes of the intro and he was just gone,” she said.
A representative of the band even contacted her and said it will be reaching out to her in the near future.
– with files from CTV Vancouver Island
