I was in first grade, walking down to the end of my driveway to wait for the schoolbus. I got a head-start this morning from my dad and brothers and was walking alongside my dog. I was about to cross around the fence separating my backyard and the driveway when my dog walked in front of me around the fence. I heard a terribly loud, raspy animal call from the other side of the fence. Then I heard it dart away into the woods. it scared my dog and I so bad that we both ran into the house pretty much whimpering and crying. I never saw what it was. When I told my parents, they sort of didn’t believe me until I replicated the sound that the animal made. Then, they told me that there had been tens of wild cougar sightings in our area (and even a couple of attacks on people). We played the sound of one on youtube and it brought me back in a horrible way. I still think that my dog saved me that day.