Dog Fights Mountain Lion

I thought this story was good evidence of the selflessness that is normal for many dogs. 

If dogs could speak they might indeed take an oath to their humans, much like Aragorn's in The Fellowship of The Ring, "If by my life or death I can protect you I will." 

A California woman's dog is being hailed as a hero after jumping to her owner's defense when a mountain lion attacked the pair. The woman, who has been identified as Erin Wilson, encountered the mountain lion when she was taking her dog Eva for a stroll near a picnic area along State Route 299 in Trinity County on Monday.

After she exited her car with her dog, the duo began walking down a path with Eva slowly tracking ahead of her. Before Wilson knew it, a mountain lion jumped out from her side and swiped her across her left shoulder.

While in pain, Wilson called out for her dog. “I yelled ‘Eva!’ and she came running,” Wilson told the Sacramento Bee on Wednesday. “And she hit that cat really hard.” Wilson noted that her 2 1/2-year-old dog weighs 55 pounds and tried its best to take down the cougar.

“They fought for a couple seconds, and then I heard her start crying,” Wilson said. “That’s when the cat latched on to her skull. The lion ended up biting the dog's head with a firm grip.

While trying to get the animals apart, Wilson threw rocks at the lion and even attempted to gouge its eyes out to get Eva free, but to no avail. Wilson headed back to the road and flagged down a passerby, named Sharon Houston, for help.

Wilson told the Sacramento Bee that she used a tire iron from her pickup truck to get Houston's attention. Together, they used a piece of PVC pipe that Houston had in her car to beat the mountain lion, who was beginning to drag the dog off the trail.

The lion finally had enough and let Eva go. It later ran away after Houston sprayed it in the eyes with pepper spray. Since the attack, Wilson started a GoFundMe account for her dog's medical bills after she "saved my life." 

So far, Wilson has raised over $32,000. "My dog is my hero and I owe her my life," Wilson wrote on her dog's GoFundMe page. LINK

This is real life evidence of the aphorism that "It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog!!" I am glad the dog, at least so far, has survived.