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VIDEO – Dog Fights Mountain Lion That Attacked Owner: ‘I Owe Her My Life’
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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.

Never bring a dog to a gunfight.

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

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...

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

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.

WTH ?

California & she wasn't packing her SA Hellcat with 15 rd mags ?

32 grand in 4 days for the fu_ckn dog on gofundme

https://www.gofundme.com/f/hero-dog-saves-me-from-mountain-lion-attack

Sounds more like her loose dog chased down the cat and started the fight and she's covering for him.

If we're attacked by a mountain lion, we should throw rocks.

The vet will keep an eye on that and know exactly what to charge her!

Add in 40 million people probably more.

Agreed in principle

But the gal and her dog both did great. Californians and others take note

Yepp...

That is way more believable than her bullshit story.

That particular dog deserves it (assuming her story is accurate). Not every dog will do that. Few, in fact.

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.

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

I'm gonna start a gofundme for my dogs next surgery.

Betting for most of us, our dogs would do better than us on gofundme...

Wow that dog looks really torn up. Bet it was expensive surgery. Why doesn't she post vet bills?

When I read that the dog ran ahead, I immediately thought of triggering the cats prey instinct.

I was not aware that California banned deer hunting.

I’m thinking sarcasm EdM

Are you guys familiar with Belgian Malians dogs? On average they’re likely more effective than a small caliber hiking pistol would have been kudos on the woman for attacking the lion while it was attacking her dog

C'mon, it's California, highly doubtful she can legally do that.

Don't most hikers carry some sort of long pole or stick? The cane I'm forced to use after a motorcycle wreck nearly took my left foot off has a pound of bullet casting lead poured into the tip. Since some worthless thugs like to pick on crippled up old geezers, they might be in for a surprise. The same kind of modification to a hiking staff might be in order if there's a chance of encountering an animal capable of snacking on some of your body parts. Of course, if a couple of swings with the cane doesn't stop the confrontation, there's also a locking blade pocketknife and a 9MM Makarov available.

That happened up in Trinity County. If you viewed the linked video in the o.p., you can see just how rugged that area is up there in what is called the Trinity Alps. Over the years, it became known as "Hippie Heaven." I have two friends who moved there from L.A. years ago, although they were not "hippies"; they just wanted into secluded living.

I've been in Trinity County quite a few times and love the remote beauty and ruggedness of the area, and am well aware there are many different species of wild life there. Lots of Mountain lions, Black bears, coyotes, deer, bobcats, and so I hear, a few of our wonderful Canadian Grey wolves have migrated in. The bliss ninnies who move there from the cities have no idea what is out there when they go on their "nature hikes," so just like the girl in the article, go "unarmed." Others, such as my friends, hike and camp, but both carry handguns.

Calif. metropolitan areas are very, very difficult places to get a CCW, but most of the residents of rural counties can get CCWs from their county Sheriffs. Will that girl go armed now when her pooch recovers and she takes it out in the mountains for a hike? I doubt it.

Just my take on it.

L.W.

I doubt she'll be walking the river anytime soon. She's all over the internet and I imagine she'll be on at least a couple of network talk shows with the dog.
I wish her and the dog well...

I live just north of where that happened, the gal that tried to help the dog lady shot a whole can of pepper spray (didn't say what kind) on and around the cat's head with no effect. That's when she went to whalin' with the pvc. Whites Bar is just a day use/picnic area immediately between the highway and the river, I don't think she was 'going hiking', just letting the dog out for a piss call. Very thin strip between river and busy highway, I think the cat was acting screwy, there is nothing but real rough country and wilderness a couple hundred yards away from the river/highway. Something wrong with that cat.