An 89-year-old man who lay injured in the rain for two days after his ATV overturned says his big black dog protected him from circling cougars.
Raymond Orr’s niece Sue Schofield tells KIRO-TV that her uncle was riding his four-wheeler on his property near Centralia earlier this week when he hit a log and crashed. He broke several bones and was helpless until relatives found him Thursday.
Orr says his dog Jake saved him from cougars.
Erik Olson of the Riverside Fire Authority confirms that Orr said cougars had appeared and the dog fended them off. Olson says paramedics were initially skeptical — until they saw the cougar tracks near the spot where Orr had been stranded.
Pinned and injured food is their favorite. Loud and angry food with bared teeth is not.
The predators in the human world are no different from those in the animal world. Go heavy.