Would have been even worse to run--that REALLY makes you look like prey, and big brownie can't help but give chase.  That was the most terrifying part of the encounter.  My hind-brain screaming at me to "RUN!" for over a half-hour while my conscious mind insisted (rightly) that to do so would be suicide.

Even modern theoretical psychiatrists--as useless a cadre of effeminate, whiny weeble-wobbles as ever congregated at Starbucks to frantically gesticulate while sipping lattes--are recognizing the mental and emotional harm children sustain precisely by being alienated from the natural world.  Captivity isn't good for most creatures, even when it's self-inflicted.