A lady in Anchorage, Alaska, was out walking her dog on their typical path like any other day when she was charged from behind and started the head by a moose on Thursday.
The stunning minute was captured on video by a passing driver who screamed to alert the unwary dog-walker. Tracy Hansen didn’t hear the shouts, nor did she discover the big moose barrelling down the course behind her and was at first puzzled when she was knocked to the ground.
“I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something,” Hansen informed KTUU, a local NBC affiliate in Anchorage. “I had put my hands up to my head, and I’m like, ‘I’m bleeding.’”
Hansen searched for and saw the moose however still couldn’t think the animal had actually been the one to knock her down. She and her dog, Gunner, had actually passed the moose previously on their walk.
“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.
Hansen might never ever have actually understood for specific if not for another Anchorage regional, Kate Timmons, catching the event on cam.
Timmons remained in a car with her family when she began recording the moose loping down the pathway. As the moose gained ground, Timmons saw an individual walking on the course and shouted, “Watch out! Watch out!”
The moose barrelled towards Hansen, raised its front leg and knocked its hoof into her head. Hansen instantly was up to the ground and vanished out of view of the cam behind a snowbank.
After kicking the dog walker, the moose decreased and continued walking down the roadway. Timmons and her family followed the moose a couple of seconds longer, beeping their horn and shouting to attempt and get the big animal out of the location.
Timmons informed KTUU that her other half had the ability to pull the hurt Hansen over the snowbank and into their truck with her dog.
“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.”
Hansen is happy that Timmons and her family existed when she required help.
“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.
Hansen suffered head injuries from the Feb. 16 attack and said she is still experiencing headaches and bruising. She informed KTUU she needed staples for her head injuries.
But Hansen said the scary encounter won’t prevent her from going on her everyday strolls with Gunner. As of Monday, she’s already back out on the path.
“We’ll be back on our normal walks,” she said. “The moose won’t stop that.”
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