[carolinakid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp75YMEyip0

[carolinakid]

it has been all over the local media

[carolinakid]

WATCH: N.C. man throws rabid bobcat after it attacks wife in wild video

[carolinakid]

A bobcat attack was caught on camera






By WECT Staff | April 16, 2021 at 8:06 PM EDT - Updated April 17 at 5:59 PM


BURGAW, N.C. (WECT) - Last Friday, April 9, was quite the morning for one couple in Pender County.


Home security video shows Kristi and Happy Wade walking to their SUV at their home in the Creekside subdivision in Burgaw.


It was early in the morning and the two were taking their senior cat, Caroline Faith, to the veterinarian.


Happy offers a quick “good morning” to a neighbor jogging by and comments that he “really needs to wash his car.”



Seconds later, a wild bobcat can be seen running across the street, growling and then attacking Kristi from behind. She screams, “Oh my god” and tells Happy to run away.


“As I came out of our garage, I heard a growl behind or beside one of our cars and I knew it was a cat because I know what a cat sounds like,” Kristi said. “But it sounded like a very angry cat, so in the video I back up to see if I can see what it is and when I do the face of this bobcat came around the corner of the car.”


The bobcat is seen crawling up Kristi’s back. She received a number of puncture wounds and scratches and was bitten several times.





Happy grabs the bobcat and carries it away onto his front lawn.



“I just remember seeing this face and it was trying to bite her right there in the side of the neck,” Happy said. “And so I shoved my arm in and that’s how I ended up with it like this [above his head].”


He can be heard saying, “Oh my god, it’s a bobcat! Oh my god” before throwing the wild animal several feet. According to Happy, the animal bit Happy three times before he was able to throw it.


“I thought: ‘I’ll throw it this way,’” Happy said. “Two options: one, it’ll see an escape route and it’ll take off or it’ll stop just a moment where I can get a good shot at it.”


He warns the jogging neighbor, who came back to check on them, to get out as she tries to help.



The bobcat then takes off toward the front of the SUV, as Happy appears to pull out a small handgun and yell, “I’ll shoot that f***er” and chases it. He implores the neighbor to protect his wife while he deals with the animal.





https://www.wect.com/2021/04/16/watc...fe-wild-video/

[jjgold]

Wow

That guys a beast

[carolinakid]

yep a crazy vid for sure

[7deuceoff$uit]

Goes from "hey, howdy neighbor" to "I'ma shoot this mother fuggger"

[MinnesotaFats]

Guy had a piece on him!

...and a coffee
...and a cake

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Did he wash his car after?

[MinnesotaFats]

Did he wash his car after?

I'm guessing his wife washed it for him

Then cooked his dinner

Then blew him

Because he saved her life

[Kermit]

[NrmlCurvSurfr]

I would have personally gone with a chokeslam...let that cat know its place in the food chain...