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B.C. woman recounts 'surreal' cougar attack in her house ( Canada )
CBC News ^
| Aug 28, 2012
Posted on 08/28/2012 1:21:53 PM PDT by george76
A B.C. woman who was attacked on her sofa by a starving cougar that strolled into her house in search of a meal says her faithful dog saved her life.
Angie Prime, 35, was sitting in the living room of her home in Trail, located in southeastern B.C., on Saturday evening, talking to her husband on the phone and getting ready to take her three dogs out for a walk before turning into bed.
Then she caught a flash of something that should not have been in the house.
"I just happened to catch something out of the corner of my eye," she said. "I just of kind of looked over and there it was coming out of the dark at me and we kind of looked at each other."
The old emaciated cougar, looking for an easy meal, had slipped into the darkened house through an open screen door.
Prime had only seconds to throw up her arms and legs to shield her face before the big cat attacked.
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She says she plans to keep her doors closed in the future.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
TOPICS: Food; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; badkitty; bordercollie; canada; cougar; cougarattack; dog; doggieping; gooddog; gooddoggie; kitty; mountainlion; wildlife
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To: Joe 6-pack
Doggie ping! Shelties saving the world!
To: null and void
“When I was a much younger man I was attacked by a cougar in my own house.”
Don’t leave us hanging... Details! Details!
Where did you live at the time?
To: a fool in paradise
Now that was quite a Dali-ance.
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posted on
08/30/2012 9:01:35 AM PDT
by
wizr
(Keep the Faith!)
To: PastorBooks
Southern California. Where else?
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posted on
08/30/2012 9:19:46 AM PDT
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null and void
(Day 1319 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
WOOOF!
Heroic Doggie Ping!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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posted on
08/30/2012 10:21:19 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
08/30/2012 10:33:56 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I felt bad because I lost my hat. And then I saw a guy who had lost his head.)
To: george76
We have a lot of those in Boca.
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posted on
08/30/2012 10:54:22 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
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posted on
08/30/2012 11:26:44 AM PDT
by
lonevoice
(Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
To: null and void
She was really tiny at 78 lbs. Most cougar attacks are on children or adults of small stature, but not all. Hunger is an imperative which drives behavior and attack patterns.
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08/30/2012 11:41:17 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(See: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hd)
To: BerryDingle
Well I am a bunch of pills due to rotator cuff soogree. LOL
Actually I am testing this Nook I just received. Hard to get used to typing on this keyboard.
Gonna have to jail break this thing so I can install Firefox and use spell as you type.
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posted on
08/30/2012 12:33:06 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: afraidfortherepublic
“That’s when her border collie helped drive the cougar off.
“My dog jumped off the couch, and flew after it and was running out the door after it.””
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08/31/2012 7:56:23 AM PDT
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
09/01/2012 7:25:36 PM PDT
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the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Border collie. I miswrote.
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09/01/2012 11:07:57 PM PDT
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afraidfortherepublic
(Joe Biden is reported to be seeking asylum in a foreign country so he does not have to debate Ryan.)
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