Mom Pries Open Cougar's Jaws with Bare Hands To Save 7-Year-Old Son
Mothers are amazing, no doubt about it. I don’t just mean in the everyday ways in which they care for children either.
Sure, it’s incredible how moms care for, educate and lavish affection on their children. But a mother can also become a ferocious force when someone or something threatens her little ones.
People fear mother bears for good reason. And a case out of Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, Canada, shows that human moms can be every bit as ferocious.
Parents Kevin and Chelsea Bromley didn’t expect anything to go wrong when their 7-year-old son starting playing in their backyard. After all, little Zach was mere seconds away, according to KFSN.
However, the unthinkable soon happened. A cougar crept its way onto their property and attacked their child.
Chelsea Bromley heard the sounds of a struggle and ran outside to behold a horrible sight: A big cat had her son in its jaws and had begun to drag Zach away.
Those split-second moments of strife, the instants when we have no time to choose how to act, define us. In Bromley’s case, it showed that she’s made out of stern stuff.
She charged at the animal, seized its muzzle and began to try to pry its jaws open.
“She’s so selfless,” Kevin Bromley told The Canadian Press. “She had to get its mouth off of Zach.”
“She literally did, and I’m not glorifying it. I’m just saying this is what happened. She had to pry its mouth open.”
While locked in a literal life-and-death struggle with the cat, Chelsea Bromley shouted to God for help and let out a cry.
The cougar eventually released the young boy and tried to flee. It smashed into a metal fence on the property and scratched its way through the barrier.
“You can see all the claw marks of it pushing its way through,” Kevin Bromley said.
Zach ended up with cuts and gashes on his arm, neck, and head, but the boy is otherwise alright.
Officers with the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service soon located two young cougars near the property and euthanized both.
Though Zach should make a full recovery, his parents believe he may have more of a hard time dealing with the psychological consequences.
“This was a pretty near-death experience for him,” Kevin Bromley explained. “When a kid is seven, that stuff doesn’t typically come to your mind.”
The family was quick to thank the first responders who provided fast and excellent care. Chelsea Bromley was also “adamant” about giving God the credit for Zach’s rescue.
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