{"id":155084,"date":"2010-01-08T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=138455"},"modified":"2010-01-08T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:46:06","slug":"young-boy-rescued-from-cougar-by-pet-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/155084","title":{"rendered":"Young Boy Rescued from Cougar by Pet Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11-year-old <strong>Austin Forman<\/strong> and his appropriately-named golden retriever <strong>Angel<\/strong> went out to get some firewood this past Sunday evening to feed the family\u2019s wood-burning furnace for the night. Not acting like her usual self, Austin noticed that instead of playing around the yard, Angel was keeping close to his side as he performed his chore.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vidembedwrap\"><object width=\"590\" height=\"442\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QuaXQu03tzA&#038;ap=%2526fmt%3D18\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QuaXQu03tzA&#038;ap=%2526fmt%3D18\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>As he began piling wood, Austin said he saw another animal in the yard but assumed it was a dog. Once it moved under the light, however, he saw that it was a full-grown cougar. 18-month-old Angel reacted quickly, placing herself between the boy and the big cat and taking the brunt of an attack as the cougar lunged and clamped its mouth around Angel&#8217;s head. Austin ran inside to tell his mother what was going on, and she called 911. <\/p>\n<p>A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer made it to the home within minutes and was able to kill the cougar after firing two shots. Angel, who looked to be in pretty bad shape, was immediately taken to the vet where it was found she had extensive injuries to her head, including a fractured skull and numerous puncture wounds. She&#8217;s had surgery and while she&#8217;s still recuperating she is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The family said they&#8217;ve bought her a nice, big juicy steak for when she comes home. I&#8217;d say she more than deserves it!<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/young-boy-rescued-from-cougar-by-pet-dog\/\">Young Boy Rescued from Cougar by Pet Dog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11-year-old Austin Forman and his appropriately-named golden retriever Angel went out to get some firewood this past Sunday evening to feed the family\u2019s wood-burning furnace for the night. Not acting like her usual self, Austin noticed that instead of playing around the yard, Angel was keeping close to his side as he performed his chore. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}