Canadian mum saves daughter from cougar attack with bare hands.Byline: ANI London, June 19 (ANI): A Canadian mother saved her three-year old daughter from a cougar using nothing but her quick wit and bare hands. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Royal Canadian Mounted Police, constabulary organized (1873) as the Northwest Mounted Police to bring law and order to the Canadian west. In 1920 the name was changed to the present title. said that the child, named Maya, escaped with only superficial wounds after the attack on Tuesday night near the town of Brackendale, 40 miles north of the western city of Vancouver. Maya, and her mother, Maureen Lee, were walking on a wooded trail with their dog when the cougar pounced pounce 1 v. pounced, pounc·ing, pounc·es v.intr. 1. To spring or swoop with intent to seize someone or something: . "All of a sudden it just flew on her, rolled her a couple of times and grabbed her," the Telegraph quoted Lee as telling CBC (1) (Cell Broadcast Center) See cell broadcast. (2) (Cipher Block Chaining) In cryptography, a mode of operation that combines the ciphertext of one block with the plaintext of the next block. . "She was on her back and (the cougar) had his paws on her head, and I just knew I had to react quick. "So I just jumped in there and wedged wedged - 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few myself between the cougar and her on the ground. Then, "I just got up and threw it off my back and grabbed (Maya) and (ran)," she added. Maya suffered puncture wounds to her left arm and head, but is said to be recovering well. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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