Feline saved from bobcat by 90-year-old woman

This reminds me of the time that I was in my back yard. All the sudden, everything got quiet. The birds stopped singing, the squirrels were motionless on the trees, and this eeriness set in. Something inside my instinctively put me on heightened alert.

At the end of my yard, I spotted a bobcat looking right at me. I didn’t know if it would attack or not, but I didn’t stand around waiting to see what would happen. Without taking my eyes off the cat, I slowly started backing up towards my front door. Once inside, I shut the door and the windows. I can relate to what happened to this woman.

Mildred Luce came to the rescue of her beloved cat Smudge, when it was attacked by a wildcat at her home in Maine.

Luce says the bobcat had Smudge’s head in its mouth and wouldn’t let go. She tried pressing a snow shovel down on the bobcat’s neck.

When that didn’t work, the elderly woman says she yanked the wildcat’s tail and Smudge’s head popped right out. The pet cat ran into the house, with the wildcat right behind.

Luce managed to lock the bobcat in a bathroom until a game warden arrived. (source)