A woman not to be messed with
Guardian:
US woman fights off rabid bobcat, strangling it with bare handsThat is a tough grandmother. I am glad she was able to handle the killer cat.
‘I thought, not today ... there was no way I was going to die’ says Georgia grandmother who strangled animal to death
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“My neighbor’s dog was barking and it drew my attention,” she said. “I saw the cat and I took a picture. The cat took two steps and was on top of me … It came for my face.”
Phillips said she grew up in the country, where her father-in-law was once a trapper of bobcats. As a result, she knew something about the animal’s behavior and how to fight back.
“I thought, ‘not today,’” she told the newspaper. “There was no way I was going to die.”
She grabbed the cat by its throat and didn’t let go. She was afraid of calling for help, she said, because her five-year-old granddaughter was in the house.
“Once I got him where he wasn’t moving,” she said, “I started screaming for my daughter-in-law to call 911.”
Her son arrived with a gun, she said, but she didn’t want him to fire because she was so close. So he pulled a knife.
“My son stabbed it four or five times,” she said, “but it never budged so I knew it was completely dead.”
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