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https://www.breitbart.com/health/20...tain-lion-attacked-owner-i-owe-her-life/VIDEO – Dog Fights Mountain Lion That Attacked Owner: ‘I Owe Her My Life’ 12 AMY FURR21 May 2022215 A loyal dog was ready to lay down her own life to rescue her best friend during a recent mountain lion attack in Northern California. A few minutes after twenty-four-year-old Erin Wilson parked her truck and began walking down a trail to the Trinity River, the unthinkable happened, NPR reported Saturday. “I’m just walking down the slope and the dog had run ahead of me. And I turn around and there’s this cat just growling at me and it reaches up and it swipes at me,” she recalled of the harrowing incident. “At first, I was just like, Wait, what? And I think I screamed and I shouted for Eva and she came running.” Eva is the young woman’s Belgian Malinois, a breed the American Kennel Club (AKC) said “forges an unbreakable bond with his human partner.” They are also “highly sought after as police and military K-9s.” Despite the danger, Eva instantly went into protection mode and tackled the massive cat. However, the animal’s jaws clamped down on her neck and the situation grew even worse. “My fight mode kicked in and I started picking up rocks and I was bashing in its skull as hard as I could,” explained Wilson. Moments later, she ran back to her truck for a crowbar and alerted a motorist named Sharon Houston, who grabbed a PVC pipe out of her own trunk. They worked together to fight off the animal until it let go of the dog and ran away. Eva got up and Wilson eventually put her into their vehicle then sped down the road to a vet’s office. Houston detailed what happened during an interview with Fox 40: Eva suffered skull and jaw fractures, a swollen eye, and spent several days in recovery. Wilson created a GoFundMe page to cover her beloved dog’s vet bills and said in a update on Thursday she appeared to be feeling much better.
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Never bring a dog to a gunfight.
Old guy, old guns.
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One had a crowbar, wow better than 99%, other had a piece of pvc, laf.
Usually see pit-bulls/Mt. Lions/etc. being fought off [not really off] with a cup, water bottle or baseball cap.
Hope the dog is ok
, will she carry a more substancial weapon NO
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CA bans deer hunting so cats have more food, leading to more cats, leading to less deer, meaning more excess cats going hungry: restricts gun ownership so people have fewer defense options as they go out into hungry cat territory... said cats not being hunted having lost wariness of humans.
What could possibly go awry?
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The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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CA bans deer hunting so cats have more food, leading to more cats, leading to less deer, meaning more excess cats going hungry: restricts gun ownership so people have fewer defense options as they go out into hungry cat territory... said cats not being hunted having lost wariness of humans.
What could possibly go awry? You are trying to use logic to talk someone out of a situation they did not use logic to get into...
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Doesn't seem like typical cat behavior, while in hunt mode, to just "reach up and take a swipe" at her. If it wanted to kill her for food, she wouldn't have known it was there until it was too late.
Maybe a territorial thing?
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
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Doesn't seem like typical cat behavior, while in hunt mode, to just "reach up and take a swipe" at her. If it wanted to kill her for food, she wouldn't have known it was there until it was too late.
Maybe a territorial thing? Cougars hating on cougars
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The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
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Carry a weapon... know how to use it. Even out of range... take a shot... any shot. The report of a weapon will TYPICALLY change everything.
Bears, cats, humans...
TYPICALLY...
The exception being Cape Buffalo... so I have heard tell.
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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WTH ?
California & she wasn't packing her SA Hellcat with 15 rd mags ?
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Padded VA Hospital Rooms for $1000 Alex My ignoree,s will never be Rock Stars on 24 hr campfire.....Like me!!!! What are psychotic puppet hunters?
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Doesn't seem like typical cat behavior, while in hunt mode, to just "reach up and take a swipe" at her. If it wanted to kill her for food, she wouldn't have known it was there until it was too late.
Maybe a territorial thing? Sounds more like her loose dog chased down the cat and started the fight and she's covering for him.
Padded VA Hospital Rooms for $1000 Alex My ignoree,s will never be Rock Stars on 24 hr campfire.....Like me!!!! What are psychotic puppet hunters?
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If we're attacked by a mountain lion, we should throw rocks. 
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The vet will keep an eye on that and know exactly what to charge her!
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Add in 40 million people probably more. CA bans deer hunting so cats have more food, leading to more cats, leading to less deer, meaning more excess cats going hungry: restricts gun ownership so people have fewer defense options as they go out into hungry cat territory... said cats not being hunted having lost wariness of humans.
What could possibly go awry?
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Never bring a dog to a gunfight. Agreed in principle But the gal and her dog both did great. Californians and others take note
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Doesn't seem like typical cat behavior, while in hunt mode, to just "reach up and take a swipe" at her. If it wanted to kill her for food, she wouldn't have known it was there until it was too late.
Maybe a territorial thing? Sounds more like her loose dog chased down the cat and started the fight and she's covering for him. Yepp...
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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Doesn't seem like typical cat behavior, while in hunt mode, to just "reach up and take a swipe" at her. If it wanted to kill her for food, she wouldn't have known it was there until it was too late.
Maybe a territorial thing? Sounds more like her loose dog chased down the cat and started the fight and she's covering for him. That is way more believable than her bullshit story.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
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That particular dog deserves it (assuming her story is accurate). Not every dog will do that. Few, in fact.
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Doesn't seem like typical cat behavior, while in hunt mode, to just "reach up and take a swipe" at her. If it wanted to kill her for food, she wouldn't have known it was there until it was too late.
Maybe a territorial thing? Sounds more like her loose dog chased down the cat and started the fight and she's covering for him. That is way more believable than her bullshit story. Maybe... But I'd bet money that this gal has more real life experience with mountain lions than 99% of posters here. Whether the dog saved her or she saved the dog, or both, it's a heck of a story.
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Doesn't seem like typical cat behavior, while in hunt mode, to just "reach up and take a swipe" at her. If it wanted to kill her for food, she wouldn't have known it was there until it was too late.
Maybe a territorial thing? In the video, the motorist who stopped to help described the cat as having cloudy eyes. Maybe old, sick or injured. Unless someone kills the cat and it's examined, no one will know. The girl and her dog won the fight so she gets to tell the story
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