The word of the day is catamount:
"serving the larger brain the cows eat so we will eat we guarantee
digestion is the only work they do heads down tails up
for the maximum yield they won't have sex
they get some grain some salt they get their shots no catamounts
no wolves we fertilize the fields we put up bales of hay"
- Ellen Bryant Voigt, "Cow", 6 December 2010 The New Yorker
Shortened < catamountain n., apparently of English formation: it does not appear that the Middle English ‘cat of the mountain’ was a translation from another language.
2. A common name in U.S. of the puma or cougar ( Felis concolor), also called Panther, Painter, and Mountain (or American) Lion. (OED)
"serving the larger brain the cows eat so we will eat we guarantee
digestion is the only work they do heads down tails up
for the maximum yield they won't have sex
they get some grain some salt they get their shots no catamounts
no wolves we fertilize the fields we put up bales of hay"
- Ellen Bryant Voigt, "Cow", 6 December 2010 The New Yorker
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