Lauren Taylor recently returned to her home in Ashland, Oregon to find a terrifying surprise.

Lauren was stunned to walk into her house to see a mountain lion taking a nap on her sofa. The mountain lion had gotten a drink of water from the pond in Lauren’s yard before entering her home through a back door that had been left open.

“This is wild,” Lauren wrote on Facebook in a viral post. “The door was open and the room has huge plants and stairs built around real tree branches, so she likely didn’t even realize she was walking indoors until she was inside.”

The animal was startled when he ran into Lauren’s roommate, who screamed upon seeing him. The mountain lion then hid behind the sofa and slept there for six hours.

Lauren wrote that she first made a noise to try and wake the cat, but then “gazed lovingly into her eyes, and communicated using feline-speak eye blinking to calm her.”

“It was amazing to realize that this worked. I gazed lovingly then blinked hard and then she did it back,” Lauren continued, adding that the mountain lion then went back to sleep. “She clearly felt safe and she showed no inclination to leave.”

When the cat woke up again, Lauren wrote that she “again connected in a loving gaze and communicated trust through blinking.”

With just “a couple hours to dawn,” Lauren figured that it was time to “prompt her to leave without alarming her so much that she panicked.” Using a drum, Lauren got the mountain lion to leave her house.

“She roused and knew just what to do…. walking out through the open doors, through the yard, across the creek, and through the empty field behind us exactly as we had shown her,” Lauren wrote, adding she has “extensive experience working with energy and animals.”

“It was a perfect ending to a blessed encounter that could have been dangerous if approached from a lower frequency,” she continued. “May she stay safely in the hills to enjoy a long life as a wild and healthy lion.”

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