Recently, a mountain lion suddenly attacked a house in the US state of California, unexpectedly this family’s pet dog sacrificed his life to confront the lion to protect his owner, although this was not the case. This caused him to suffer injuries all over his body, but he was eventually healthy again. The dog’s brave action moved many people.
Engineer and designer Mary Padres (43) never thought her pet dog Rocky would act without hesitation. She said that Rocky was “very gentle”, “lovable and extremely gentle”.
Mary, who lives in La Verne, told The Epoch Times: “When I opened the door to the back garden, I saw a very large mountain lion staring at me. It is ready to hunt the dogs in my house.”
Ms. Mary runs a dog shelter, initially attracted by the mischief of the dog Rocky, so she adopted him. Now Rocky has used this method to repay the favor of saving his master’s life.
“It was only thinking about how to protect me,” said Mary. His instinct to try to save me made him do it, it was unbelievable.”
Protecting the owner, the dog was seriously injured by the mountain lion attack
“The situation was very scary, he chased the mountain lion.” Both Rocky and the mountain lion quickly disappeared into the night.
Worried that the dog Rocky would be more or less healthy, Miss Mary and her relatives ventured out to find him in the middle of the night, calling his name all the way. They suddenly heard barking but it disappeared very quickly.
“We were really scared at the time, we knew for sure there was something wrong,” Mary said.
They took flashlights to look for Rocky in the mountainside area. After half an hour of calling, they suddenly heard very light footsteps running towards them.
“We were a bit scared and didn’t know where the footsteps were coming from, but eventually we saw it was Rocky. It was almost rushing towards us, and then weakly fell on top of us.”
Fortunately, when it was just morning, Mary’s family took the dog to the veterinary hospital for emergency treatment. At that time, its wound was still bleeding, its breathing had become very weak.
According to Mary, the dog’s head and neck had huge bites, possibly the mountain lion had bitten the head and dragged it.
At that time, the veterinarian had stitched at least 30 stitches for the dog Rocky, he was completely healthy after 3 weeks but was still a bit shy when going to the backyard.
Ms. Mary expressed that she was surprised and grateful for this loyal dog’s brave act. However, because the mountain lion regularly lurks around the residential area, Ms. Mary also wants to remind her neighbors of the impending danger, asking them to watch out for children and family pets.
