Eva had travel off out front of her owner when the social lion attacked , so the dog ran back and got between the computerized axial tomography and her homo .
Eva theBelgian Malinoisis home now , suffer a well - deserved rest on a stigma - new bed border by new toys after nearly give-up the ghost while protecting her human from a spate lion .
The attack materialise on May 16 in northerly California ’s Trinity County when 24 - year - erstwhile Erin Wilson draw off at a roadside picnic area along State Route 299 and head down a path toward the Trinity River . She did n’t get far , however , before she found herself cornered by a batch lion .
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" I ’m just walking down the slope and the blackguard had black market ahead of me . And I turn around and there ’s this cat just grumble at me and it strive up and it swipes at me,“Wilson told NPR . " At first , I was just like , hold back , what ? And I think I scream and I exclaim for Eva and she came run . "
Mountain lion blast on human race are incredibly rare . Since 1890 , California has recordedonly six fatal wad Leo attacksbecause of the animal ’s more often than not diffident , secluded nature . Their preferred quarry is deer , which are normally in copiousness in their forested home ground , but late drought conditions have made solid food scarce in some field . Wilson speculated to NPR that these circumstance made the sudden appearance of a slender womanhood calculate like an attractive choice .
The lion ’s swipescratched Wilson ’s left shoulderas Eva came running back at the sound of distress . Looking to protect her human , Eva lept between Wilson and the lion , tackling the dotty cat and kicking off a life - and - destruction struggle between the two animate being .
After a myopic tussle , the lot lion got its jaws around Eva ’s head and Wilson fought to free her hotdog , hit the lion with John Rock in an seek to break its hold . finally , Wilson ran back to her truck andflagged down passing motorist Sharon Houston . Retrieving a wrecking bar from her truck , Wilson and Houston ran back down the trail and their combined efforts managed to scare the big big cat off .
Wounded herself and shake by the experience , Wilson still managed to carry Eva back to her truck and rush her back down the twist road to the VCA Asher Animal Hospital in Redding . The 2 - twelvemonth - old doggo did n’t need surgery , but her wounding were still extensive . Evaleft the animal infirmary on May 19with operative tape wrapped around both her front paws , several shaved patches where she had been run up up , and the veterinary pronounce she might mislay survey in her odd centre .
Eva ’s spirits , however , seem high as word footage from theSacramento Beeshowed the pupper active and waggle her rump as she and Wilson left the animal infirmary .
" I would do anything for her , " Wilson told theBee . " And now I know that she would do middling much anything for me . "
