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Humans are rarely attacked by mountain lions in California. People have been injured by the cats in only 14 incidents since 1890, though six confrontations resulted in human deaths. For a few harrowing moments on April 6, 14-year-old Andy White of Napa Valley, and 17-year-old Hendrick Smeding of St. Helena, feared that they might become the next statistics to be added to that list.
Shortly after 5:30 a.m. that morning, the two friends were hunting turkeys on a remote hillside not far from the home of White's grandparents in northwest Napa County. White was armed with a .20-gauge shotgun; Smeding had a bow. As the teens approached an area where several turkeys were perched in trees, something spooked the birds and they flew off. White recounted to the April 8 Napa Valley Register: "I turned around, and there it was--just about three feet from my face--a real mountain lion. It was just looking at me. Then, it took a swipe at me with its paw. I froze. I was so scared, I didn't know what to do."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Cougar confrontation.(Exercising The Right)