A few years ago on the AT near the Smoky Mountain National Park we were just about to stop for the evening so we put our packs off and down and sat down to rest for a minute before pitching the tent and making dinner. We trek with our Rottweiler most of the time and we had him with us this time too. As we were sitting there every thing was really quite because we were being very very still and just resting for a minute. We heard something rustling in the bushes a short distance away from us and we got up to see what was going on in the bushes and thickets that we were hearing this rustling from. Soon we found out what was making the rustling noise. It was two (2) Mountain lions, bobcats or some sort of cat wrestling with each other. They finally made enough noise to get the attention of our Rottweiler and he also got up to see what was going on. When the to cats saw J.D. (the Rottweiler's name), they stopped wrestling and started paying a lot of attention to the dog. Finally he walked over to see the cats a little closer I guess and he really got their attention then. They both stood straight up, stared at the dog for a couple of minutes and as soon as the dog started moving toward them they turned and hi-tailed it out of there. That's the last we ever saw of them, how ever it was the closest that we had ever been to a wild cat like that that wasn't in a zoo or something. They weren't more that 30 feet away from us before they realized that we were there...sabre11004...

P.S. The Rott that we have weighs in at around 200 lbs. and wear a 34" collar...That's probably why he got those two cats attention. He was bigger than they were...