A bobcat attacked a man and his nephew in the garage of his Massachusetts home.
Roger Mundell Jr., 53, entered his garage in his Brookfield home to get something for a friend when he suddenly heard a hiss. Next thing he knew, a bobcat that had snuck into his garage pounced on him from eight feet away.
The bobcat, which is thought to be rabid, bit Mundell's face and scratched his shoulders repeatedly. Mundell eventually escaped by taking off his jacket.
"It was on me in a split second," he told the Boston Globe after the attack. "I have bite marks in my eyelid, up my forehead. It scratched my back. I was bleeding like crazy."
Mundell ran outside and closed the garage door behind him but the animal got out through another area and started to attack Mundell's 15-year-old nephew who was outside.
The bobcat started to bite the boy's forearm until Mundell pulled the animal off. He pinned it to the ground and started to choke it until his wife grabbed a pistol from the house and they shot and killed it.
It is rare for bobcats to attack people, so it is believed it was rabid. The dead animal is being tested for rabies.
"This is completely out of character for a bobcat, even to be in the garage in the first place. It is completely consistent with an animal that may have rabies," Tom French, of the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife said, according to the Daily Mail.
Mundell, who was scratched or bitten about 30 times, and his nephew were being treated for rabies at a hospital. His wife wasn't bitten, but she was also treated for rabies since she came in contact with the animal's blood.
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