ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Tracy Hansen and her dog Gunner walk along the exact same course 3 times a day, however on Feb. 16, their nighttime custom took an extreme turn.
While walking on the walkway of Old Seward Highway near a car dealer, a moose charged suddenly behind Hansen, leaping over her and kicking her in the head.
“I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something,” Hansen said. “I had put my hands up to my head, and I’m like, ‘I’m bleeding.’”
It was not up until she stayed up that she recognized that a moose that she and her dog had actually strolled past previously at night was now in front of her.
“Knowing that the moose had been somewhere behind me and now, here this moose is in front of me, and I’m like, was that the moose,” Hansen said.
Moments prior to Hansen was started the head, Kate Timmons was driving down Old Seward Highway with her family. Timmons said that she saw the moose kick Timmons. Her family then rapidly hurried to help, attempting to divert the moose far from Hansen and her dog.
“My husband was able to pull her over the snow bank, so we could get her in the truck with her dog and kind of get her out of the way,” Timmons said. “It definitely seemed unprovoked from our standpoint and it happened so fast it was just like, a matter of getting her out of the situation, getting her help, making sure, you know my big thing was that she didn’t have a head trauma, that there wasn’t a bleed or something.”
Timmons said that she was stressed over what might have occurred if her family didn’t witness the mishap and spring into action. Timmons kept in mind how high the snow banks were, which would have made it a battle for a passing car to see Hansen laying on the walkway.
Hansen said that their courses crossed at specifically the ideal minute.
“Kate and I were discussing that the Lord put her in the right place, at the right time to be able to help,” Hansen said.
On Monday, Gunner and Hansen are back walking on the exact same course. Hansen said that Gunner was unscathed. Hansen is still recuperating from staples in her head, headaches and bruising throughout her body, however that won’t stop their everyday regimen.
“We’ll be back on our normal walks,” Hansen said. “The moose won’t stop that.”
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