Posted on 04/29/2021 5:18:21 AM PDT by marktwain
On Friday, 9 April, 2021, Happy and Kristi Wade were going about a normal morning routine, as shown by their security video. Happy can be seen setting a cup of coffee on the hood of his car, and placing a box of sweets in the back seat.
His wife Kristi comes out. She hears a cat growling. She takes a step back, and a bobcat attacks her from behind. Screaming, she darts between the two family vehicles, with the bobcat biting as it climbs up her back.
Her husband, Happy, comes to her aid. She turns around, and he grabs the bobcat off of her as it nears her neck.
Holding the cat above his head, he suffers three bites until he throws the cat across the yard. After throwing the cat, he draws his concealed pistol, pursues the cat, and shoots it to prevent it from attacking another neighbor.
Later, it is reported the cat had previously stalked a different neighbor, earlier that morning. From wdbj7.com:
WECT reported, Kristi received a number of puncture wounds, scratches and was bitten several times. Happy is then seen grabbing the bobcat and carries it away onto his front lawn.
“I just remember seeing this face and it was trying to bite her right there in the side of the neck,” Happy said. “And so I shoved my arm in and that’s how I ended up with it like this [above his head].”
Happy said he was bit by the bobcat three times before he was able to throw it.
“I thought: ‘I’ll throw it this way,’” Happy said. “Two options: one, it’ll see an escape route and it’ll take off or it’ll stop just a moment where I can get a good shot at it.”
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The rabies shots aren’t bad anymore. Your first visit you get three shots in the rear, then a shot weekly for a month.
While the cat was probably rabid (around here the bobcats act like normal feral cats) you are decades behind the curve on rabies treatment. It’s 4 or 5 shots now.
There is.
No, I’m not “decades behind” on rabies treatment—I even had the prophylactic vaccine this year, myself.
If you had bothered to actually read the article and watch the video, you would have heard at the 1:32 mark that both the husband and wife are undergoing “extensive vaccinations” and received “more than thirty shots each.”
Woman was carrying a pet carrier,BCat was probaly after her kitty
Oh, and again regarding actually reading the article: the bobcat tested positive for rabies.
Last I checked Rabies is a disease aka a sickeness.
Could be that they’re doing more extensive shots because of the multiple lights.
Yes, of course. That’s explained in the video, which apparently nobody here watched...
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Five was bad enough.
I can’t imagine 30.
As usual, in the spring, I do a recon at night with a big jacklight before I let my dogs out to pee.
We have coywolves, bears and used to have 3 mountain lions before they moved on. [I hope]
Couple weeks ago I saw eyes up by the catfish pond but the new leaves obscured them a bit so I went back towards them to make sure it wasn’t coywolves instead of the usual deer.
Halfway there, I see eyes looking back at me from atop the old well digger’s dirt pile.
So, in my night gown and slippers, I open the gate and proceed to stomp up there to see what it was.
I could see it was cat-like but until it turned and hopped off the dirt pile, I couldn’t see the bobtail.
After watching that video, I think I’ll stay on *this* side of the fence, from now on.
o.O
That bobcat was no bigger than a house cat. Any bigger and Happy wouldn’t have been able to toss him anywhere.
I got 5 for a “non contact” rabid raccoon exposure.
The dogs only got one booster, each.
They might have to be more aggressive for that many bites, especially that close to the brain.
I dunno.
It’s terrifying, at any rate.
And it’s what?
Don’t leave us hangin’, bro.
:D
I didn’t get that.
First two were the immunoglobin shot and first rabies shot right in my bony little upper arms.
The next four, the same and the /deleted/ shoved them in deep, near to the bone.
All these years later, I still get “phantom pain” at the injection sites.
Thanks. I saw a previous article about this incident but didn’t know the homeowner used a concealed carry pistol to dispatch the varmint.
Good shoot!
They’re really not that big.
Lynxes are sizeable, though.
I hate to say this, but the hero/husband will probably now lose friends amongst some of his neighbors. There may even be those that begin to watch him in an effort to file bogus reports with the police.
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