GA Grandma choked out a bobcat that attacked her

[Sam]

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/...r-my-face.html

http://www.wyff4.com/article/woman-s...s-say/21528831

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This is what you take away from the story:

Phillips responded, “I normally carry, but as fast as this cat moved, I would have never made it to the holster.

Remember: the attacker always has the advantage. When you carry situational awareness is at least as important as being armed. She should have brandished as soon as the cat appeared.

[ZGXtreme]

As a teen I had to choke out a bobcat that had latched onto my fathers arm. That was a handful and I wasn’t even the one under attack.

Props to this granny for having the fight despite the pain!

[SomeOtherGuy]

This is what you take away from the story:
Remember: the attacker always has the advantage. When you carry situational awareness is at least as important as being armed. She should have brandished as soon as the cat appeared.

It sounds like she was attacked within a few seconds of the cat's appearance. Bobcats aren't all that big or common, so if I saw one I wouldn't automatically assume it was about to attack me. And there's a reason we have the expression "catlike reflexes."

Sounds like she's tough and lucky, other than the $10k rabies shots.

[RetroRevolver77]

This is what you take away from the story:



Remember: the attacker always has the advantage. When you carry situational awareness is at least as important as being armed. She should have brandished as soon as the cat appeared.

That's the problem, not all bobcats are criminals so how would she know for sure?

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It sounds like she was attacked within a few seconds of the cat's appearance. Bobcats aren't all that big or common, so if I saw one I wouldn't automatically assume it was about to attack me. And there's a reason we have the expression "catlike reflexes."

Sounds like she's tough and lucky, other than the $10k rabies shots.

I've been in many, many situations like this (not rabid animals but potentially threatening ones). As soon as "strange predator-looking animal" appears: my hand is on my sidearm. Maybe she wasn't in the practice of doing that. I'll give her a pass on not having the same mindset as me because it's probably her first encounter with something like this. Not saying the cat wouldn't have gotten a few bites and scratches on me, too, but it would have done so while eating 9mm pills.

[Leaveammoforme]

As a teen I had to choke out a bobcat that had latched onto my fathers arm. That was a handful and I wasn’t even the one under attack.

Props to this granny for having the fight despite the pain!

Lolz, I too have strangled a bobcat. Thought I joined some sort of exclusIve club that day but I guess it's not all that uncommon. Mine was making progress on getting away from me while my forearms began to burn. Dispatched the critter with a quick slice from the delica.

Bravo, granny, bravo.

[SomeOtherGuy]

I've been in many, many situations like this (not rabid animals but potentially threatening ones). As soon as "strange predator-looking animal" appears: my hand is on my sidearm. Maybe she wasn't in the practice of doing that. I'll give her a pass on not having the same mindset as me because it's probably her first encounter with something like this. Not saying the cat wouldn't have gotten a few bites and scratches on me, too, but it would have done so while eating 9mm pills.

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See the midwestern donut hole with no bobcats? That's where I grew up and have lived 99% of my life. I had no idea bobcats were common elsewhere in the USA. I was more aware of the javelina, even though it lives even farther from here!

It also looks like these are fox/coyote sized, so without having had any experience around them, I would not have realized they were a significant threat to humans. Learn something new every day, especially with people posting on this thread that they have personally had to kill them after being attacked.

[SteyrAUG]

This is what you take away from the story:



Remember: the attacker always has the advantage. When you carry situational awareness is at least as important as being armed. She should have brandished as soon as the cat appeared.

She had a camera in her hands at the time and sounds like she got two seconds to transition from "Hey a Bobcat" to "fight." And it always helps when grandma is only 46 years old, I remember when grandmas were more like 64.

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See the midwestern donut hole with no bobcats? That's where I grew up and have lived 99% of my life. I had no idea bobcats were common elsewhere in the USA. I was more aware of the javelina, even though it lives even farther from here!

It also looks like these are fox/coyote sized, so without having had any experience around them, I would not have realized they were a significant threat to humans. Learn something new every day, especially with people posting on this thread that they have personally had to kill them after being attacked.

Around here, bobcats have been known to wander well into suburban neighborhoods.