{"id":1304569,"date":"2019-03-01T05:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=449459"},"modified":"2019-03-01T05:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:27:49","slug":"necropsy-of-mountain-lion-confirms-colorado-trail-runners-story-he-strangled-bludgeoned-cat-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/necropsy-of-mountain-lion-confirms-colorado-trail-runners-story-he-strangled-bludgeoned-cat-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Necropsy of mountain lion confirms Colorado trail runner\u2019s story he strangled, bludgeoned cat to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trail runner who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/02\/14\/mountain-lion-attack-colorado-trail-runner\/\">killed a young mountain lion<\/a>\u00a0in the foothills west of Fort Collins last month strangled and bludgeoned the cat to death, a necropsy confirms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Necropsy findings suggest blunt trauma to the head, and also support the victim&#8217;s description of strangulation based on petechial hemorrhages to larynx and trachea,&#8221; the document released Thursday says.<\/p>\n<p>The mountain lion attacked 31-year-old long-distance runner Travis Kauffman from behind sometime after noon on Feb. 4 on the West Ridge Trial on Horsetooth Mountain. Kauffman said he picked up a large rock and pummeled the lion in the back of the head. He then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/02\/05\/how-runner-killed-mountain-lion-attack-larimer-county\/\">choked the cat to death with his hands, arms and feet<\/a>\u00a0after it bit and clawed him in the face and on his body.<\/p>\n<p>The laryngeal cartilages and trachea were covered with petechial hemorrhages, supporting a determination of strangulation, the necropsy says. The cat&#8217;s face was stained with blood around the nose and mouth and the head had numerous abrasions and bruising, the necropsy says. The animal&#8217;s brain had mild reddening. Its eyes also had petechial hemorrhages.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/02\/28\/mountain-lion-attack-colorado-trail-runner-necropsy\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/necropsy-of-mountain-lion-confirms-colorado-trail-runners-story-he-strangled-bludgeoned-cat-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trail runner who\u00a0killed a young mountain lion\u00a0in the foothills west of Fort Collins last month strangled and bludgeoned the cat to death, a necropsy confirms. &#8220;Necropsy findings suggest blunt trauma to the head, and also support the victim&#8217;s description of strangulation based on petechial hemorrhages to larynx and trachea,&#8221; the document released Thursday says. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 06:28:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}