Trail Names - Wampus Cat

With names like Spokes, Pheonix, Thin Mint, Ziggy Stardust, and Mr. Green Tea you might start to think I've only made imaginary friends so far. But along the trail most through-hikers adopt "trail names" that reference where they are from, a characteristic, or a story about them. 

I decided to "let one happen," and was officially dubbed Wampus Cat: 

In Franklin our neighbor at the motel asked if we were hiking and warned us, through a great deal of crew and a toothless grin, to watch out for "wampus cats." He went on to explain that a wampus cat is half cougar half wild cat. But while cougars and wild cats generally scare easily and leave you alone, the wampus cat is ruthless. Our Franklin friend knew this on account of having fought one that tried to steal a sausage he was cooking on a fire once...

The following day he grabbed my hand when I was passing by and tried to give me a small bag of what appeared to be drugs. But we stood corrected later when he came up to us again with the bag explaining it was merely full of green tea to sprinkle around our tents and burn in our fires at night to keep the wampus cats away (of COURSE!). As I was hiking with Mr. Green Tea at the time I became Wampus. 

Bonus!: Sounds kinda like caddywampus and I am generally considered to be a mess.