I was in an upstairs apartment that I didn’t recognize. There was a scuffle near the foot of the stairs and a man ran in and said there was something chasing him. He went to shut the door behind him as he came in but a black panther burst in a jumped on the couch in a sort of sideways position. I grabbed a couple large knives, one in each hand. I stayed a bit behind the cat to make it difficult for him to pounce on me while I assessed what the best way to stab it would be if he did pounce. Then I decided to intimidate it and raised me hands and roared. The cat seemed a little nervous so I repeated this with more zeal. I scared the cat and he jumped and ran into the hallway where there was a bedroom at each end. There was no door on the entrance to the hallway so I quickly gathered as much furniture as I could to block the cat in while I called for someone to come over and tranquilize it.