“I was happy that he had all his parts," she said.Īlthough Kauffman suffered puncture marks and required stitches on his wrist and face, he said he doesn't have any long-term damage to his mobility. Once he got to the hospital he called his girlfriend, Annie Bierbower, who said at the press conference she was in a meeting when she got the news and immediately raced to the hospital. Kauffman ran into a few other people on the trail, who drove him to the hospital and helped him get his car. He estimated the whole thing lasted about 10 minutes. Once the animal was dead, he got out of there as fast as he could. But what finally killed the animal, he said, was when he was able to get over the cat and step on its neck, suffocating it. He also tried to hit it with sticks and rocks. So, Kauffman pinned the cat's back legs down. "And I was pretty worried about its claws just sinking into my my stomach and groin area." "Because I'm a recent cat owner, I know that the back claws are pretty dangerous when it comes down to an attack," Kauffman told KUNC.
Kauffman described the rest of the battle against the cat as a "wrestling match." He said his knowledge as a self-described "cat dad" helped him think of how to fight. He said he turned, and the mountain lion attacked, latching onto his wrist.
He was running along when he heard something behind him. So, on Monday, he said he headed out on the trails for a training run. Right now, Kauffman is training for the Dirty 30, a 50-kilometer (about 31 miles) trail race in June, he told KUNC. He got into trail running about a year ago. Kauffman told reporters at a press conference on Thursday that he moved to Fort Collins from Arkansas about five years ago, and has enjoyed getting into outdoor activities like mountain biking and skiing. The trail runner who made headlines nationwide after killing a mountain lion with his bare hands has revealed himself to be 31-year-old Travis Kauffman from Colorado.
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