With a pet carrier in hand, Kristi Wade walked outside her home in Burgaw, North Carolina, about to take her 15-year-old cat to the vet when she let out a scream. Her husband, Happy, sprang into action as something attacked her.
“To be quite honest with you, I didn t know what I had grabbed a hold of,” he told USA TODAY. But for Kristi, she knew quickly what had pounced on her.
“I knew immediately what it was. I knew it was a bobcat.”
As the bobcat attacked Kristi, Happy grabbed the animal, wrestled it and threw it across his yard. Footage of the attack from the Wades security camera has been seen all over social media.
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A Bobcat Attacks, and a Husband Swings Into Action Michael Levenson © WECT Home security video shows Happy Wade just after he pulled a bobcat off his wife, Kristi, outside their home in Burgaw, N.C.
Just before the bobcat attacked, the quiet subdivision where Happy and Kristi Wade live in Burgaw, N.C., was the very picture of suburban tranquillity.
Mr. Wade was carrying a pan of brownies, and Ms. Wade was carrying their cat, Caroline Faith, in a carrier. It was a Friday morning, and they were on their way to a veterinarian in Wilmington, about 25 miles away, for a routine appointment.
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