California Woman Praises Dog for Saving Her During Mountain Lion Attack: ‘I Owe Her My Life’
On Monday, Erin Wilson and her two-year-old Belgian Malinois Eva were taking a walk near Northern California’s Trinity River when a mountain lion charged at Wilson, ripping through her jacket and scratching her shoulder, Wilson told The Sacramento Bee. She added that the mountain lion began growling at her.
“I yelled ‘Eva!’ and she came running,” Wilson said of her 55-pound dog, who was walking ahead of her off-leash at the time of the attack. “And she hit that cat really hard.”
“They fought for a couple seconds, and then I heard her start crying,” Wilson told the outlet. “That’s when the cat latched on to her skull.”
The dog owner intervened by punching the mountain lion and used rocks and sticks to hit the cat, who fought back after Wilson attempted to choke the animal and gouge out its eyes. Still, the mountain lion refused to let go of Eva, so Wilson says she ran to her car to grab a tire iron and get help from drivers passing by.
Wilson was able to flag down a woman named Sharon Houston. Houston told the publication that she grabbed a four-foot PVC pipe and pepper spray. Together, Houston and Wilson attacked the mountain lion, who had pulled Eva away. Once Houston sprayed the cat with pepper spray, it finally loosened its grip and ran away as Eva escaped to Wilson’s pickup truck.
Wilson drove Eva to the closest emergency vet clinic, which was 90 minutes away. On the way, Eva experienced convulsions.
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The end of this article ends on a hopeful note for Eva, but a follow-up tells a sad tale. Eva eventually succumbed to her injuries.
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