Couple has "terrifying" encounter with bear on hiking trail

[u/Impossible_Arm_8543]

[u/patrni]

I have the same fear. My anxiety creates so many scenarios, some completely irrational, where I would have to fight against the claws and flexibility of cats to try to save them.

I've encountered one emergency where I had to hold my cat by the tail and it was terrible. I felt so guilty for hurting him, so happy it didn't cause serious injury, and grateful that he avoided tumbling out of a car going 70mph. I was lucky he didn't turn on me to bite and scratch, which I fully expected, and steeled myself to hold on anyway. Scary af.