A man punched a cougar in the face to stop it attacking his dog outside a fast food restaurant, police said yesterday.
William Gibb, 31, had stopped at a Tim Hortons outlet, a popular Canadian chain, on his 372-mile drive to Grand Prairie on Boxing Day when the incident happened.
Gibb, from Red Deer, Alberta, et his dog out for a walk in a wooded area near to the restaurant, in Whitecourt, central Alberta.
Soon after, he heard the female Husky whimpering in pain and found a cougar pinning it to the ground, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
Sergeant Tom Kalis said: "He punched the cougar, yelled at it and got it to release the dog. Then he called the police.
"He was quite lucky."
Gibb kept the cougar at bay and tended to his injured dog until police arrived and killed the cougar.
The dog need medical attention but Gibb was not seriously injured, RCMP said.
Kalis said cougar sightings were not uncommon around Whitecourt because the town is surrounded by forests, but it is unusual for cougars to attack dogs or other animals.
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Man punches cougar in the face to stop it attacking his dog outside fast food restaurant
29 December 2016
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William Gibb, 31, let his Husky for a walk when he turned to see the mountain lion pinning the dog to the ground.
