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.
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.