"I wasn't really analyzing it too much at the time," Gibb said. "All that was going through my mind is that I had to protect my dog.
"It was just very instinctual. My dogs are like my children."
The Red Deer man was meeting a friend for coffee at the Whitecourt Tim Hortons on Dec. 26, when he let his two dogs Sasha and Mongo out into the parking lot for a short run.
Within seconds, he said he heard Sasha, the female of the pair, start yelping.
A cougar had emerged from the woods nearby and pounced, he said.
"She (Sasha) was crying out in pain and distress so I went running," said Gibb, a 31-year-old technician. "And I saw something wrapped around her so I ran up and punched it in the side of the head.
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I could not have stood by and watched either I would have jumped to its rescue even if both of us died in the process, it's like your child.
ReplyDeleteI saved my roommate from a cougar once. She attacked him in the back corner of the bar at Market Street Inn.
ReplyDeleteLOL!
Delete10:31 , I'm with you !
ReplyDeleteThey are like a child!