A 55-year-old woman from Pennsylvania survived a violent attack by a bear accompanied by her three cubs while she was on the patio of her home.
“She had me down and she was on top of me. I thought I was going to die,” a tearful Lee Ann Galante told ABC News, adding, “I never thought this would happen to me.”
The attack occurred Tuesday around 8:30 p.m. when the victim left his dog at the back of his residence, attacked by the female who subsequently attacked the canine’s owner.
The fifty-year-old who suffered serious injuries to her arm, face, neck and head was rushed to a hospital where she remains in a condition considered stable, according to the American media.
“I was not going to let her eat my dog,” the fifty-year-old testified from her hospital bed, her face swollen, after hitting a cement slab head-on when she was attacked by the ursid.
“She then grabbed the back of my head and pulled so hard I thought I was going to get scalped. She pulled so hard that she tore the skin from the back of my ear,” she added, before confiding that she thought she would die that evening.
Called to the rescue, the Pennsylvania Agency for the Protection of Fauna and Flora found the bear who had to be anesthetized, but her three cubs were finally released into the wild.
“I have been here for over forty years and nothing like this has ever happened. We’ve never seen that,” observed Butler Township police chief John Hays, quoted by the American media.
