Natalee Dennis recounts the moment she and her father were watched up close by a cougar as they soaked in the hot tub in Tofino, B.C.
Natalee Dennis was sitting in an outdoor hot tub with her father, Steve Dennis, when they heard an animal nearby.
Thinking it was a raccoon or a cat, Dennis grabbed her cellphone to use the flashlight and start filming.
“We got something down here?” her dad asked her, peering over the edge of the tub in Tofino, on B.C.’s Vancouver Island.
“Probably the raccoons,” he says as a pair of glowing yellow eyes can be seen peering through foliage. “C’mon. C’mon.”
Moments later, Dennis gets a better view, exclaiming, “Oh, it is a cougar, Dad!”
“It is! It is!” she repeats as her father replies, “No, it’s not” at the same time the video captures the animal’s head and upper torso peering directly at …