SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A hero pup is on the road to recovery after saving her owner during a mountain lion attack.
On Monday, Erin Wilson and her two-year-old Belgian Malinois Eva were taking a walk near Northern California’s Trinity River when a mountain lion charged at Wilson, ripping through her jacket and scratching her shoulder. She added that the mountain lion began growling at her.
“I yelled ‘Eva!’ and she came running,” Wilson said of her 55-pound dog, who was walking ahead of her off-leash at the time of the attack. “And she hit that cat really hard.”
“They fought for a couple seconds, and then I heard her start crying,” Wilson told the outlet. “That’s when the cat latched on to her skull.”
Eva sustains horrific injuries including fractured skull. The loyal dog “continues to improve” after saving her owner from a mountain lion attack, a post from the pup’s Instagram page says.
