Posted on 04/03/2019 5:34:12 AM PDT by SJackson
A woman in Canada jumped on a young mountain lion and prised its jaws open to rescue her 7-year-old son as he was mauled in their backyard
A mom jumped on a young mountain lion and tried to prise its jaws open to rescue her seven-year-old son as he was being mauled in their backyard in British Columbia, Canada on Friday.
Chelsea Bromley heard banging against the fence in the yard and went outside to see a young cougar biting her son, Zack Bromley, on the arm, his father, Kevin Bromley, told Canadian outlet CBC.
She then jumped over the fence and began to force the cougar's jaws open, he told CBC, leaving her with cuts on her arms.
"I think any mom would do that. It's that selfless love."
Zack was airlifted to hospital from their gated community home with wounds to his arms and head, CBC reported. He is now recovering in his grandmother's house.
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Kevin said that Zack realized "that was pretty close to near death."
"He's old enough to grasp that. And that's a big pill to swallow, just to digest that mentally." mountain lion coloradoA mountain lion outside of Golden, Colorado in April 2014. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Kevin said that he started to cry when he arrived, because his son was "covered in blood."
Ben York, a British Columbia conservation inspector, told The Globe and Mail that Chelsea had wrestled the mountain lion off her son, leaving her with some "minor bite marks on her hand."
"She told me she couldn't do it for two or three seconds but then she screamed 'help,' and it just let go and ran off. And there was blood everywhere," Kevin told Global News.
He said that Chelsea is "beside herself." "If it had been a bigger cougar, it would have been over," he said.
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A second mountain lion was at the scene, according to reports in Global News and The Globe and Mail, but it is not clear if both animals were involved in the attack.
Conservation officers responded and said they tracked and killed the two mountain lions. They said they were young and "quite thin," suggesting they were hungry, Global News reported.
Scott Norris, a British Columbia conservation inspector, said seeing cougars on west Vancouver Island is common.
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I read an article in Readers Digest many years ago about a women who did the same thing.
All these mountain lion attacks point to me thing, an overabundance of lions. When lions expand into areas outside of their natural habitat they are looking for food.
Or when people move into their environment. But you’re right, their movement to less hospitable ranges are caused by overpopulation. Then again, if they can eat pets and little humans, suburbia might be a hospitable environment.
When the cat population is kept in balance with the deer an elk populations, cat attacks become very rare.
Owen is my favorite part of that movie.
Prise Vs Pry... I had no clue.
Don’t mess with momma tiger - she’ll win every time.
Sue prise, sue prise, sue prise </my best Gomer Pyle voice>
Good one...
My son? - “Tennessee Father Blows 12-gauge Hole in Mountain Lion”
Sarah Palin wasn’t kidding when she spoke of “Mama Grizzlies.”
We live close to this neighborhood. My son, six, keeps talking about it. He’s a little freaked. Note to self: always keep son within 10 feet going on hikes in the woods.
One of the most prevalent but seldom acknowledged signs of a particular kind of low IQ is when the ratio of opinion strength to judgement capacity is significantly greater than one.
A very common effect of such an IQ is observed, to give a few examples, in the political support of Hillary, the pretence in a leftist signing up on FR and in the bashing of hunters.
Not sure why you directed that at us, but OK.
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