Woman Kills Bobcat With Her Bare Hands

Woman Kills Bobcat With Bare Hands DeDe Philips told reporters about her encounter with the deadly cat at her home in Hart County, Georgia. Philips was out in her yard taking a photo of a sticker she was fixing to the window of her new car, when the bobcat appeared just a few feet away. After snapping a photo of the animal, it lunged at her, claws brandished at her face. “I thought, ‘Not today.’ There was no way I was going to die.” to OnlineAthens “I took it straight to the ground and started inching my hands up to its throat. I knew that was the only way I was getting out of this.” Philips told CBS 46 that her 5-year-old granddaughter was sleeping inside, and she feared her screams would bring the child out and in sight of the bobcat. Philips managed to squeeze the life out of the animal, and her son eventually stabbed it a few times to make sure it was dead. “It was either me or the cat and it was going to be the cat that day.” to WYFF