The brave Colorado man who killed a mountain lion with his bare hands reveals how not wearing ear buds saved his life and how he tumbled off the trail with the giant cat and suffocated it with his foot.
Travis Kauffman, 31, was attacked by a wild mountain lion as he was running along a Horsetooth Mountain Park trail in Fort Collins, Colorado on February 4 and killed it by pinning the cat down and choking it.
With just a scar to his cheek Kauffman said, 'I'm feeling great. I'm pretty much 100 percent,' on the Today show on Tuesday. 'The only thing I have to recover is numbness in my fingers but other than that – I’m shipshape.'
Just three weeks after the attack Kauffman is looking healthy and confident, a far cry from how he emerged from the wild lion encounter suffering bloody lacerations and scratches to his face, neck, arms, and legs, requiring about 20 stitches to recover.
Colorado runner Travis Kauffman, 31, relived the vicious mountain lion attack he survived on February 4 on Tuesday's episode of the Today Show and explained how he wrestled with the creature and stepped on its neck to suffocate it to death
His girlfriend Annie Bierbouer revealed she wasn't surprised her boyfriend was able to survive the attack saying 'of course you did that' on the morning show on Tuesday
He was joined on the morning show with his girlfriend who revealed she wasn't surprised that her boyfriend was able survive the lion attack.
'I was just like what?! There was so much disbelief. Not really understanding how big of a deal it was but also it's sort of like…of course you did that,' Annie Bierbouer said with a laugh.
Reliving the life-threatening attack, Kauffman says it all started when he heard a rustle of pine needles and realized it was a mountain lion sneaking up on him about 10 feet away.
'I heard it [tree branch breaking], and then I turned, and it was one of those things where my stomach just dropped. I was thinking I can't believe this is happening. This is real. Oh, crap…it was running at me, at which point I just pretty much threw my hands in the air and started yelling,' he said.
He noted he wasn't wearing ear phones as he was on his run, something he believes ended up saving his life.
Kauffman said not wearing ear buds saved his life as he was able to hear the rustle of pine needles behind him and notice the giant cat approaching just 10 feet behind
Three weeks after the attack he's nearly healed from his injuries which included bloody lacerations and gashes on his face and arms and required about 20 stitches to mend
'I think if I had ear buds in I wouldn't have heard the stick crack, and I wouldn't have turned, and in that case I think the fight would have been very different, just for the fact it could have latched onto the back of my neck, and I don't know how I would have been able to get the cat off in that case,' he said.
After seeing the cat run towards him, it jumped on top of him and latched onto his wrist with its mouth and menacing sharp teeth.
'First I threw my hands up to block my face, and he just jumped and latched right onto my wrist, and then started clawing and so he got a claw through my lip, and then a claw on my face, and that's kind of when I really had that instinct to fight back, like kick in full force,' Kauffman said.
Injuries: The Colorado Parks and Wildlife shared these pictures of his bloody gashes and lacerations to his face and neck
He said the lion pinned him down at his wrists and started to attack his face and neck
Kauffman also suffered scratches on his legs in the attack and required 20 stitches to recover
The experienced hiker tried desperately to shake off the creature but couldn't as its teeth were lodged into his wrist and its claws were dug into his back, 'so we just kind of tumbled off of the trail together'.
He said he was able to get on top of the cat and despite efforts to desperately hit it in the neck with anything he could find including rocks and sticks, he realized his greatest weapon was his foot.
'I was able to kind of preposition…I was kind of crouched on top of it, so imagine my wrist in its mouth and then I pinned its back legs with my left knee so I wouldn't get scratched on that end, and I was able to kind of swing my right leg around, some twister movement right there,' he said.
The mountain lion attack made headlines earlier this month, but the man behind the attack remained a mystery until February 14 when Colorado Parks and Wildlife released a video of Kauffman explaining the incident and retracing his steps to the attack site (above)
Tracing his steps at the Horsetooth Mountain park he found the paw marks of mountain lions
Larimer County officials reported increased mountain lion activity in the area and increased patrols on trails the day after the attack. File image of a mountain lion above
Finally he stepped on the lion's neck with right foot for a few exhausting minutes, which Kauffman said felt like 10 years.
'There were moments when it would periodically stop moving then start thrashing again. So a couple of those cycles and then finally I felt pretty convinced that it was done and it finally released my hand at that point,' he said.
Then he bolted away from the creature for help.
'I was on a crazy fear high,' he said on the fight,' he said during his first press conference on the attack on February 14.
He ran a total of three miles to exit the park and found another runner and park visitor who helped him and gave him a ride to the hospital.
The mountain lion attack made headlines earlier this month, but the man behind the attack remained a mystery until February 14 when Colorado Parks and Wildlife released a video of Kauffman explaining the incident and retracing his steps to the attack site.
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