B.C. woman scares off cougar by playing Metallica song

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B.C. woman scares off cougar by playing Metallica song
August 2, 2019
"If you're a cougar, don't tread on Denise Gallant.

A Metallica song proved to be the right deterrent for the Vancouver Island woman when she was being stalked by a big cat late last month.

Gallant, a Chemainus resident, was out for a walk with her husky Murphy on a logging road south of Duncan when she felt something was following them.


File photo.


“When I look over to my right, there he was,” said Gallant. “The cougar.”

She then began to record video of the encounter on her phone.

Gallant can be heard in the video yelling at the big cat: “Get out of here! Go on! Get! Bad kitty!”

That didn't work and the cat kept stalking her, so that's when she turned to heavy metal.

“I went through my ITunes and thought 'What’s the loudest most impactful song I can get here?” Gallant said.

She found her favourite band Metallica’s song Don’t Tread On Me and blasted it at full volume.

Apparently the cougar was not a heavy metal fan and took off as soon as the song began playing."

 

[Jbugsnana]

I know from experience that skunks do not like Queen!

 

[Bohemian]

Metallica played at full volume would probably scare me off too.

 

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James Hetfield is seen in this photo he sent to Vancouver Island resident Denise Gallant.

“The first three, four notes of the intro and he was just gone,” Gallant told CTV News last week.

The story caught the attention of media outlets from around the globe and it eventually piqued the interest of the band itself.

It started with lead guitarist Kirk Hammett posting an article about Gallant's story on his Facebook page.

Then she got a call from the band's liaison before the long weekend, saying somebody would be in touch with her.

But she said she never could've anticipated who was going to be on the other line.

When she saw a foreign numbers pop up on her screen, she thought it was another reporter wanting to do a story. But to her surprise, it was the band’s frontman.

"I was a little bit lost for words," she told CTV News Monday. "It's surreal how quickly it happened and how far it's gone. The fact that he's so down to earth and such a great person, I'm very pleased to find that out first-hand."

Like fast friends, she and James Hetfield discussed their dogs, living on the island and living in California.

"I can't believe he knows my dog's name," she gushed."

 

[Indy Anna]

"Bad kitty!'?

I don't know which would scare me more... the cougar or Metallica.

 

[LadyL]

haha what an awesome experience