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.
I figger this is a brunette worth mentioning. She ain’t Audrey Hepburn, but she sure was something.
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Shannon, I salute you for being a link in the transport chain to get Katfish’s lady and her belongings delivered to her relatives. Very kind of you, sir. <3
32 Texpat Katfish’s Bama Belle needs to get to Memphis. Her brother is in Texarkana. Her Memphis son will come get her from there. I was going to buy her a plane ride to Memphis but she’s got more clothes and incidentals than I’m willing to put on a plane. Funny…… I turned down a free stay in a nice… Read more »
It sure sounds like it. We cleaned up the leftovers, I had fish, fries, hush puppies N coleslaw, wife had roast beast, rice w gravy and English peas. We both thought that we made out fine but wife really liked hers. 😉
Shannon
You need a very good reason to drive all the way through Deep East Texas to get to Texarkana. I hope you have one.
Shortly after Hubby and I got married, his relatives in Atlanta, TX (not far from Texarkana) were building a house, and Hubby was going to do the plumbing. He left Friday, and I was staying behind. I woke up Saturday morning in a rare white tornado mood. I was going to clean our home, top to bottom. Highly motivated. Then… Read more »
Eckermann’s Smoked Sausage, Spicy Charro Beans, and probably a couple slices of bread, Grampa.
We eat fancy around here on Friday nite.
Going to get a a couple of front tires in the morning at Disc Tire. They still have a little meat on them, but I have a strong feeling that a trip to Texarkana is on my near horizon. That would be a first for me.
Five and a half solid hours through the pine trees.
Ugh.
And gummy worms get a cheese puff texture.
Tedtam – my cousin’s daughter told me that I need to try that. There are directions in the Harvest Right booklet – and a “candy setting”… But since my primary purpose at the moment is to get as much nutritious food socked away, shelf-stable, as possible, before “things” get out of hand and food ain’t affordable anymore – I figure… Read more »
Bsue – this is what happens when you freeze dry Skittles. Fluffier and crunchier.
The Trump team treated the DeSantis launch as if it were a debate, flooding inboxes with “Truths” that we wouldn’t otherwise see and blasting DeSantis for his record and more. What’s very clear is that even though Trump’s strongest support is among the most conservative voters in the GOP, he intends to attack the Florida governor overwhelmingly from the left. “He’s… Read more »
Tedtam – what a boon!!!! It’s interesting, learning the differences in the sounds, from one cycle to the next… and it ain’t a fast process… but there are just some things that don’t dehydrate well… and somehow, FDing raw meat, and having it raw when you rehydrate it just seems like wonderful magic to me… You oughta get one and… Read more »
It charges a fee and it’s accuracy is probably suspect (always in the wrong direction), but it is hard to beat those automated coin machines over rolling coin.
A little Latin humor from my magister:
Sunt genera tria hominum: illi qui numerare possunt Latine, et illi qui non possunt.
You can probably figure it out. If not, let me know.
I found a bunch of money owed to me on the state’s unclaimed funds web page. Most of it was deposits I put down for utilities on some of our properties. I just got the check today, over $1K. Gonna put it aside for Nat’s cousin to come live here with me, some time in the future.
Not the first time I’ve heard of something like this happening. At least it’s in Florida, where I doubt he’ll be set free. Death penalty sought for MS-13 member accused of decapitating Uber Eats driver You gotta see the mug shot. What he did with that poor man is….story is right – this is demonic. The poor family, having to… Read more »
Put a major dent in the quart baggie full of quarters I had collected over the months. I have a handleless coffee mug in which I throw the change Hubby drops on the floor when he empties his pockets before settling in for the evening. It’s a rare night that I don’t find a coin or two or three on… Read more »
Tedtam – PIIIIING – yes, tis a LOVERLY sound… As is Nat running, currently in freeze cycle to “freeze” frozen mixed veggies (3 trays=5 lbs undried) and frozen potato shreds (they were sold as frozen hash browns, but were not seasoned, nor browned – so they are lovely little julienne strips of pre-blanched raw potatoes, to be used in whatever… Read more »
The un-vacuumable carpet mat’s turned out real nice after blasting them repeatedly at the car wash.
Man, I need to order those WeatherTech front mats.
Between the wet winter and spring I really don’t remember the last time I washed the van. The first eighteen months of ownership I was almost a Super Dave maniac about washing it. I had a couple hours to kill so I got after it at the manual car wash. It took three tries with the foaming brush to get… Read more »
#21 TP: Yes, he should sue each and every one who defamed him. He can easily show monetary damages due to his loss of endorsements. The judge who slapped a gag order on Favre should be tied to a tree and whipped 3/4 to death.
Man, the muscle relaxant half-pill I took this morning (because, boy, was it needed!) just knocked me out for almost an hour. I managed to fight off the bag monster until after I could turn off the flame under my canner. I just woke up and took out all of my jars – all still bubbling, so it looks like… Read more »
There’s just too much going on out there to follow everything, but one story I regret not chasing down is the racist media assault on Brett Favre’s reputation. I saw people throwing around accusations, but now comes the true story and thankfully Favre is fighting back and has already forced one sports announcer to settle out of court. Dennis Statham… Read more »
14 Shannon
RE: Your linked article
I went to Texas Children’s Hospital’s profile page for Dr. Kristy Rialon and it turns up blank. Dr. Robert Ogden Roberts doesn’t show up on the TCH website either.
Poof ! We never heard of these doctors !
However, they both still appear as faculty at Baylor College of Medicine.
Didn’t Joe Biden used to boast that he was Catholic? I think he still claims to be a Catholic but he has been an ardent supporter of murdering babies for 30+ years so NO! He’s NOT a Catholic ditto Nasty Pewlousy. He likely grew up in the Catholic Church but it didn’t take, his political ambitions are much more important… Read more »
Tedtam @ 11:56 AM
Tracy Beanz runs UncoverDC and is a fierce investigative reporter who doesn’t care whose feelings get hurt by what she writes.
I have lots of admiration for her work.
A story on NY voting shenanigans. Color me shocked! /not And more intentional incompetence. A peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Information Warfare (JIW) confirms a “Loss of Control” breach has occurred in the NYSVoter Database. A peer-reviewed paper of their results in a respected journal is a hard-won and “significant milestone,” according to Marly Hornik, Executive Director of the… Read more »
Teachers’ Union Told LA Dodgers Students Could Die If Drag Queen Nuns Weren’t Re-Invited to Pride Night
The very fact that the Dodgers management team didn’t roll on the floor laughing in hysterics is telling. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see the Dodgers lose half or more of their fan base.
I was reading about mirepoix since Shannon mentioned Fay using it in her recipes. It has an interesting history and versions across Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Cajun cooking. I’ve used a couple of versions of it in recipes, but didn’t know it had a name. I make a very good Bolognese sauce that requires a mirepoix in the recipe. Since… Read more »
Merrick Garland is a vicious, vindictive SOB who has decided to ignore any ethics or principles in his campaign of revenge for being denied a seat on the Supreme Court. He is that and guilty of insurrection by proxy in his refusal to prosecute the DA mentioned above. He has serially violated his oath of office to protect and defend… Read more »
The Sick Ghouls of Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Christopher Rufo recently shared internal records from TCH revealing that the institution resumed performing child gender mutilation procedures only three days after announcing that they would halt the practice. [The whistleblower said,] “And it is absolutely astonishing: so many of the charts that I have just perused and… Read more »
There are so many lawsuits filed by the states at this point against the US government it is amazing they even have the manpower to fight them. Overwhelming Garland’s offices is a good thing. Hopefully, it distracts them from doing even more damage to the nation. Make no mistake about it. Merrick Garland is a vicious, vindictive SOB who has… Read more »
I wonder if Brinton is figuring out what sex he is, now that he’s around real men willing to demonstrate things to him.
More NYers upset over the illegal immigrants being shipped to their communities by Big Bully NY City, without warning and without assistance.
Welcome to Texas, folks. Now, wake the hell up and vote in responsible folks.
Morning, y’all! I hadn’t heard anything about North Face queer ads, so I poked around and found this: https://twitter.com/Tobiwan_Hexobi/status/1661454347991957504 — It is hard for me to believe that anyone finds that admirable.
Childers takes on his next topic: Britain’s foreign office is all giddy over signing over the sovereignty to WHO, in case we need another global worldwide emergency to cement power in the hands of the elite again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/25/who-pandemic-treaty-lockdown-uk-ministers-fear/ Fretful folks often ask me what I think (as a lawyer) about the proposed WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty. I’ve written about this… Read more »
More on the corrupt DA front: The Post Millennial ran a story yesterday headlined “Biden’s DOJ Drops All Charges Against Soros-Backed Massachusetts DA Caught Lying Under Oath.” U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Rachel Rollins resigned last Friday, … she’d lied to investigators under oath, and tried to improperly influence an election for District Attorney in Suffolk County. /snip… Read more »
The Lipstick Horror Show of Sam Brinton gets more disturbing. Joe Biden’s former nuclear waste czar, who in his off-hours liked to steal women’s luggage and then pose for selfies in their clothing, has another underreported entry on his curriculum vitae. Sam Brinton is also a member of the L.A. Dodgers’ favorite anti-Catholic political group, whose members dress up as… Read more »
More jab documentary, from Epoch Times:
The Epoch Times has published a new documentary on jab injuries titled, “The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told.” Here’s a link in case you know someone who needs to see it.
Still here. Lurking.
Busy with work and other things.
Now that I have to sit down and rest the spasming back again, I guess I can take this time to…. PHOBIA PHOBIC ☙ Friday, May 26, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Roundup: Target and the Neo-Satanists lose $9 billion; the Times is forced to reluctantly report positive news about DeSantis’ campaign announcement; more confirmation about media’s choice of its preferred… Read more »
I’m glad I bought that sale price zucchini at Aldi yesterday. The two big chubs of ground beef didn’t fill the canner, so I put some jars of zucchini/onion/tomato in to fill the canner out.
Those jars were so pretty, I hated to put them in the canner.
The FBI Knows What Car Was Used In J6 DNC Pipe Bomb, But Refuses To Identify Prime Suspect I’m not terribly concerned about the ‘ham and eggers’ at the FBI anymore. The organization is too corrupt to save. Disband it now, imprison the top 5 layers of management, seriously vet the rest and imprison those who participated in the crimes… Read more »
#6 Bones, after the Big Steal of 2020 my boy is convinced that there will never be another free election in this country. After all the COVID BS Kalifornia they started mail-in voting only so you can’t go out and vote like the old days. Everytime he and his wife get their ballots in the mail, someone has peeled back… Read more »
Those North Face idiots tried to push a boycott of the oil companies; the dip$#!ts didn’t even realize that they can’t make their products without petrochemicals?!?
Bones –
I’ve seen the North Face ads featured in news reports. WTH?
The efforts at the steal in November 2024 are going to be epic. The lawlessness is there for all to see, as those on the left side of the Deep State aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. Merrick Garland belongs in prison for criminal obstruction of justice. Ditto: Chris Wray, all 51 signers of the letter vouching for the… Read more »
This morning is starting out rough, but I am soldiering on. Browning some ground beef for canning this morning (to hopefully make enough room in the frig for thawing out brisket for barbecue this weekend). I dumped two pounds of butter in the crock pot to make more ghee (also clears a little room in the frig). My colored bell… Read more »
Biden Humiliated On the World Stage.
This is NOT news but just another installment of the Doddering Old Fool in the White House. Be sure to check out the Citizen Free Press Tweet Thingy.
GET WOKE – GO BROKE writ large for all to see. North Face is next on the list. I would boycott them, but I have yet to ever buy the first product from them, so I can’t really boycott them any harderer. Target losing $9.3 BILLION in only 1 week due to this woke-ness is a delightful thing to witness. I… Read more »