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Dog Fights Mountain Lion That Attacked Owner: ‘I Owe Her My Life’
breitbart.com ^ | 5/21/2022 | Amy Furr

Posted on 05/22/2022 9:56:57 AM PDT by rktman

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.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: California
KEYWORDS: belgianmalinois; bigcats; dogs; goodgirl; maligator; malligator; waitwhat
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To: DesertRhino

Uh, isn’t protecting yourself in California prohibited? Maybe the wackos will get the young lady fined for interfering with the mountain lion.


21 posted on 05/22/2022 10:28:20 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: wardaddy
That cat no doubt made that dog's day. They sure love their work. Almost got a fully trained Malinois. Perfect at all commands - except “let go” to stop chomping
22 posted on 05/22/2022 10:30:11 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Looks like that mountain lion had its hands/paws full with this dog.


23 posted on 05/22/2022 10:33:05 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: rktman
AND a Belgian Malinois, too. Great choice for protection.

The author wrote "..the unthinkable happened." What a freaking idiot. If you hike in California, you EXPECT to encounter mountain lions. It is very "thinkable." The author probably lives in some urban liberal kook land where all you see are squirrels in the parks, pigeons on the eaves, and rats in the garbage cans.

24 posted on 05/22/2022 10:34:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: rktman

The KTVU reporter says “Experts say throw rocks.”

Best of luck to you bending down to grab rocks. That is exactly when they will pounce on you and break your neck. BAD advice.


25 posted on 05/22/2022 10:38:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: 2banana
A .357. a .45 or a .44 Magnum I should think would be one's constant companion in ‘’big cat’’ country.

Jus. sayin’....

26 posted on 05/22/2022 10:43:33 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Had one tree’d and darted a week or so ago in Carson City NV. And, a couple years ago in downtown Reno by the now closed Harrah’s casino outdoor stage.


27 posted on 05/22/2022 10:44:04 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

My all-time favorite was a young one treed on an elementary school property in Palo Alto, CA about 20 years ago. He was looking down at all the tasty lunch morsels on the playground. The authorities arrived and dispatched him figuring that no matter where they took him, he’d come back for lunch. The locals went totally apoplectic — “Why did you have to kill the pretty kitty cat?” they wailed.


28 posted on 05/22/2022 10:46:27 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: DesertRhino

I agree...

Good girl, did her duty. But I would have taken a shot.


29 posted on 05/22/2022 10:49:05 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: rktman

I love shepherds.....I’ve always said, if I ever get a dog, I want one that can rip the throat out of a home invader rather than yap at his ankles.....


30 posted on 05/22/2022 10:52:15 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care)
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To: SamAdams76

one way they are not like people. Your dog will never disappoint you, most people will.


31 posted on 05/22/2022 11:00:00 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: blueunicorn6

My book club members were so appalled by the dogs getting raccoons.


32 posted on 05/22/2022 11:07:49 AM PDT by WHATNEXT?
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To: rktman

I went hiking last weekend and for the first time ever on a hike, saw a bear. A Black bear crossed the trail about 20 yards in front of me and my little hiking buddy, my Black Lab. I tried to get my smartphone out and turned on so I could take a pic but the bear was gone before I could.

Of course, I’m not stupid. I’m always armed - and especially when I hike. Had the bear turned toward us instead of running away from us, I’d have pulled out my gun and lit his ass up.


33 posted on 05/22/2022 11:08:29 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Spktyr

advice to californaians when encountering a mt lion- fall down and act like a large piece of liver


34 posted on 05/22/2022 11:11:06 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: rdcbn1

Went yesterday to a K-9 police dept. competition. Most of the dogs were Malinois. Over 3000 people attended. When it was held 3 years ago, before covid, only a hundred attended.


35 posted on 05/22/2022 11:11:12 AM PDT by WHATNEXT?
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
There IS something good that has come out of Belgium.
36 posted on 05/22/2022 11:11:17 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: WHATNEXT?

Generally, I’m kind of live and let live with wild animals.

Raccoons can be trouble.

Farmers see them as pests.

If I remember right, the young guy in the book wanted to train his dogs to win a competition so he could help out his family. They were poor.

It was a different time and a different culture.

The universal messages of the book shouldn’t be lost because we live in a different time and culture.


37 posted on 05/22/2022 11:15:32 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: WHATNEXT?
Malinois are definitely displacing the German Shepards and Rottweilers. Awesome dogs.
38 posted on 05/22/2022 11:15:35 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: rktman

eva for president 2024... 😇


39 posted on 05/22/2022 11:20:08 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Bob434
Meanwhile, for us non-Californians:

:P

40 posted on 05/22/2022 11:20:21 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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