On
Friday evening, a Colorado woman who had left her 5 year old son and his older
brother playing outside their home near the resort town of Aspen, ran out to
her front yard when she heard her 5 year old son screaming and what she saw was
terrifying. She saw a mountain lion hunched over her son and biting him.
The
woman ran towards the lion, yanked away one of its paws and saw her son's whole
head in its mouth.
She
fought the Lion relentlessly and was able to pry its jaw open and get her son
out of its mouth.
"She
was able to pry the cat's jaws open," Pitkin County Sheriff's Deputy
Michael Buglione said. "She's a hero."
The
boy suffered deep cuts to his head, face and neck and was flown to a Denver
hospital, while the mother suffered scratches on her leg and bite marks on her
hand authorities said. She was treated and released.
"The
boy was completely under the cat," Buglione told The Aspen Times.
The
mother grabbed the lion's mouth and pried it open, freeing the boy who was also
trying to free himself from the Lion. She then picked him up and ran away, the
deputy said.
The
boy's father had just returned from running an errand when he saw the
commotion, he jumped in the car with his wife and son and called 911 as they
sped to the Aspen hospital. The child was flown to Children's Hospital in
Denver in fair condition.
The
mountain lion was estimated to be about 2 years old and was not fully grown. Buglione
said:
"It
wasn't a big cat," "Had it
been a 110-pound lion, which I've seen around here, this would have been a much
different story."
Wildlife
officials killed two mountain lions in the area within several hours of the
attack. The animals were being examined to determine if they were hungry,
diseased or just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The
lion in that incident, described as a small, yearling male, was tracked and
killed.
Source:
The Aspen Times
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