Mother fights mountain lion to save 7-year-old son
"I think any mom would do that. Its that selfless love, said husband.
(Web Desk) – Chelsea Bromley, a mother, saved his seven-year-old son Zack from a mountain lion by prising its jaws from attacking the boy in backyard of her house in British Colombia, Canada.
Chelsea Bromley heard banging against the fence in the yard and went outside to see a young cougar biting her son, Zack Bromley, on the arm, his father, Kevin Bromley, told Canadian outlet CBC.
He said that his wife jumped over the fence and fought the cougar opening his jaws with force which left cuts on her arms.
"I think any mom would do that. It‘s that selfless love”, said Kevin.
Zack was airlifted to hospital from their gated community home with wounds to his arms and head. He is now recovering in his grandmother s house.
Kevin said that Zack realized "that was pretty close to near death."
"He’s old enough to grasp that. And that’s a big pill to swallow, just to digest that mentally."
Kevin said that he started to cry when he arrived, because his son was "covered in blood."
"She told me she couldn t do it for two or three seconds but then she screamed ‘help,’ and it just let go and ran off. And there was blood everywhere," Kevin said.
He said that Chelsea is "beside herself." "If it had been a bigger cougar, it would have been over," he said.
A second mountain lion was at the scene, according to reports in Global News and The Globe and Mail, but it is not clear if both animals were involved in the attack.
Conservation officers responded and said they tracked and killed the two mountain lions. They said they were young and "quite thin," suggesting they were hungry.
Scott Norris, a British Columbia conservation inspector, said seeing a cougar on West Vancouver Island is common.
