The cat dialed back pressure through its crushing jaws, and the friend was able to pull away, fellow cyclists said in an interview one month after the incident east of Seattle.
A group of Seattle-area cyclists who helped one of their own escape the jaws of a cougar recounted their story this weekend, saying they fought the cat and pinned it down.
The woman who was attacked, Keri Bergere, sustained neck and face injuries and was treated at a hospital and released following the Feb. 17 incident on a trail northeast of Fall City, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement.
Bergere said she spent five days at an area hospital and was still recovering.
Fish and Wildlife Lt. Erik Olson called the actions of her fellow cyclists “heroic” in the statement. But the extent of the cyclists’ battle with the 75-pound cat wasn’t immediately clear then.
Reactive…kill mt lion because it attacks meat lunch boxes while out on a day hike cause people are prey.
Proactive…March into Mt lion territory, get attacked…kill mt lion cause it’s near you and your supposed to feel safe in the woods…
Both situations have people killing predators because they’re doing predatory things.
Since you clearly didn’t understand it last time…127 attacks are because we kept marching into their territory and “reactively” killed them.
Lol you a fucking idiot if you think that, I’ve turned my farm into a wildlife habitat and do rescue, my anger is from dipshits like you who want safe spaces to exist which involves killing predators because they did what predators do…hunt and kill to survive. You’re just too fucking ignorant to understand that.
Dude, you have a farm. You’re literally the definition of invading wild spaces. You chose to clear wild spaces and live there, and introduce people to the habitats that you’re the angry if other people want to walk in.
In kinda stunned at the hypocrisy. If you don’t want people to intrude on the animals space, move. You’re not special.
With the first part, you almost seem close to getting it.
I agree that it’s stupid to kill predators in their habitat because you’re supposed to feel safe in the woods. You’re the one who keeps thinking that anyone is advocating for a safety bubble.
Humans are not typically prey animals for any predator. One attack a year is not a pattern of strong predation.
Avoiding contact is obviously the priority, but if an animal goes out of it’s way to try to kill a person it’s just irresponsible to say we should let it try again.
I bought a farm and have turned it back into wild land, insects are back because I don’t brush hog anything, I’ve planted native trees and restored two of the wetlands on the farm, wildlife is now returning to the area and bats are all over the place, because the insects are back. I bought it before a developer could purchase it and turn it into a subdivision, I’ve dedicated my entire income of the last decade to restoring and rescuing animals…so kindly go pound sand.
I’m not at all, the entire thread is people wanting that and advocating for killing it because it might have issues vs sedating the animal and then re-releasing it after a checkup.
Again, attacks like this are rare mainly because we have killed off most of the predators and they are now rare.