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.
Yes, humans aren’t fair that way at all. Everything and everywhere is our habitat now, including just like roads thought forests etc. Not to mention we outnumber mountain lions by an absurd number.
I know why you are getting downvoted, but we really aren’t connecting the dots between “sad loss of natural habitats” and this kind of overprotective thinking. Even more extreme perhaps - wild predators get killed for killing (basically unprotected) livestock, which lives where they do). And then we wonder where all the birds went, why are the deer so unhealthy, etc.
We tend to expect a finely tuned ecosystem to survive in an area a 100th of it’s original size - often in a non-continuous way (separated by farms, highways, cities, etc). And a few decades later we wonder why species are disappearing.
Yep, I’m getting down voted for being annoyed at the ignorance here.