An attack by a rabid bobcat
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The Associated Press reports that a couple hiking in the mountains outside Tucson were clawed and bitten by a rabid bobcat that did not relent until the man killed it with his geologist’s hammer.
Rich Thompson, a geologist at the University of Arizona, and his wife, a marine biologist at the school, were receiving rabies shots after Saturday’s attack. Thompson said he knew the cat was rabid the moment he saw it staring at him and his wife, Katrina Mangin in the Santa Rita Mountains. He said they tried to get away but the bobcat pursued them, lunging at Mangin, climbing up her legs and wrapping its body around her, clawing and biting. The couple, in photo, fought off the bobcat, but it continued attacking and jumped on Thompson’s back.... Finally, Thompson took out his hammer and killed the animal. “It’s very sad,” Thompson said. “This poor kitty cat was deranged by its disease-riddled brain. I love the native cats. It was terrible to have to kill it.”