Cougar Mare

 

All of you who commented on my 16 yr old mare, Baby Doll and her interest in my neighbor’s 4 yr old gelding, and called her a 'Cougar'…….you totally cracked me up!

I’m sort of embarrassed to admit that I’d never heard of the term ‘Cougar’, so of course I had to Google it and educate myself.

Typically, cougars prey upon men almost young enough to be their sons. Thus forty-something cougars would be attracted to men in their 20s, and fifty-something cougars would pursue men in their 30s and so on. Some cougars are less interested in a relationship than a sexual conquest, perhaps enjoying the fact that they are physically appealing to men who are considered to be in the prime of their virility.

 

A cougar may be married or unmarried, and some even go after their daughters' boyfriends.

 

Although the term 'cougar' comes from the big-game predatory cat of the same name, the name also may allude to the wearing of animal print clothing by older and more sexually aggressive women. Which is why the term ‘Cougar’ strikes me as ironically funny…….a prey animal that is called a predator. lol!

 

An early example of the cougar phenomenon was seen in the film The Graduate, in which middle-aged Mrs. Robinson (Ann Bancroft) seduces fresh-out-of-college Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman).

Real-life cougar relationships include Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher (15 years), Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (12 years), and Barbara Hershey and Naveen Andrews (21 years).

Well Baby Doll has a message for all of you who called her a Cougar.

Eat.

Your.

Heart.

Out!

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