A 46-year-old has strangled a rabid bobcat to death after the large feline attacked her. DeDe Phillips said the wild animal, which is a relative of the lynx, emerged next to her pickup truck in Georgia while she was in her front driveway on 7 June. “As soon as it took the first step, I knew I was in trouble. All I thought was: ‘Not today’. I wasn’t dying today,” the grandmother told local television station WGCL. She said she had just put a bumper sticker with the slogan: “Women who behave rarely make history” on the back of her new truck, and when she came outside to take a photo she was faced with the prowling animal. Ms Phillips, who lives in rural Hart County (about 100 miles northeast of Atlanta), told the Athens Banner-Herald: “The cat took two steps and was on top of me. It came for my face.” Her father-in-law used to trap bobcats, she said, but she herself had never come across one in the flesh before. “They go for the jugular. 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Sunday, September 26th (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) broadcasting on CBS and available to stream live and on demand with Paramount+ or the CBS app.<doc-sep>A Georgia woman says she killed a bobcat with her bare hands after she was attacked by the rabid animal.Dede Phillips says she was heading out her front door when she saw a bobcat staring back at her near her truck.Phillips said the bobcat attacked after she snapped a picture of it. "As soon as it took the first step, I was in trouble and I knew it," Phillips said. "When it got to that pole, it leaped on me. "At that leap, Phillips said it was a fight for her life. "I grabbed it by the shoulders and pushed it back away from me and I took it down right here. "The encounter ended when Phillips strangled the wild animal to death.Due to the encounter, Phillips suffered broken fingers on both her hands and cuts and bruises all over her body.According to authorities, the bobcat was rabid and Phillips will now have to undergo a series of expensive and painful shots.<doc-sep>A fearless grandmother in Georgia took on a bobcat with her bare hands in the driveway of her house, located in Hart County, 110 miles northeast of Atlanta. DeDe Phillips, 46, had just finished taking a selfie with a bumper sticker at the back of her truck which read “Women who behave rarely make history” — a picture she planned on sending her husband — when she noticed the wildcat walk into her yard. “My neighbor’s dog was barking and it drew my attention,” Philips told the local news outlet Athens Banner-Herald. She added that the moment she saw the creature, the first thing that popped into her mind was “not today! I wasn’t dying today.” Moments after the thought passed her head, the bobcat pounced on her. “As soon as it took the first step, I was in trouble and I knew it,” Phillips told CBS-affiliated News Channel 5. “When it got to [the] pole, it leaped on me…I grabbed it by the shoulders and pushed it back away from me…and I took it down.” After pinning the wildcat on the ground, she “started inching my hands up to its throat” and once her fingers were around its neck, she held on with all her might. “If I had ever let it go, it would have been me, so I made sure I never let it go,” Phillips said. Photo: Getty Images/ John Moore Until she was sure the creature could not move anymore, Philips kept herself from screaming, lest her granddaughter, who was sleeping inside the house, woke up. “I started praying, don’t let her come to the door,” Phillips said. But soon she realized that she could not kill the animal alone, so, she called out for help. “Once I got him where he wasn’t moving I started screaming for my daughter-in-law to call 911,” the 46-year-old added. Although she suffered a broken finger and several bite and claw wounds to her hands, arms, chest and legs, the grandmother kept the bobcat trapped between her hands till her daughter-in-law showed up and stabbed the animal four to five times. “It never budged, so I knew it was completely dead,” Philips said. Being the daughter-in-law of a bobcat trapper, Philips knew exactly how to tackle an attack from a wildcat. “They go for your jugular . . . when they can get the vein you’re dead in a couple of minutes,” she said, adding that if she hadn’t acted swiftly, the creature would have bitten her face off. Wildlife authorities arrived at her house and informed her that the dead bobcat was rabid. They proceeded to remove the body of the wildcat and burned its blood left behind in the driveway. Philips also had to get a round of anti-rabid shots. Philips said the encounter with the bobcat was surprising as her house was located in the middle of soybean fields, and she never expected to come across a wildcat.<doc-sep>
A north Georgia grandma killed a rabid bobcat with her bare hands. She was attacked in her driveway as her 5-year-old granddaughter slept inside. The incident occurred in Hart County, which is about 110 miles northeast of Atlanta. “My first thought [was] not today! I wasn’t dying today,” Dede Phillips said. Just moments before wrestling the wildcat last Thursday, Phillips put a sticker on the back of her new truck: "women who behave rarely make history." She walked inside to grab her iPhone to take a picture of the sticker, and with the camera app open, walked outside to find a bobcat staring at her. Seconds after snapping a picture, it attacked. “As soon as it took the first step, I was in trouble and I knew it,” Phillips said. “When it got to [the] pole, it leaped on me…I grabbed it by the shoulders and pushed it back away from me…and I took it down.” It bit and broke fingers on both of her hands and cut and bruised her all over her body. With her granddaughter sleeping inside, Phillips never screamed. “I started praying, don’t let her come to the door,” Phillips said. She managed to get her hands around the animal's throat and never let go. “And I strangled it to death,” Phillips said. Her home is in the middle of soybean fields, so she never expected to encounter a bobcat. Authorities found out it was rabid and burned the blood left in her front yard. Now, she must get a painful and expensive series of shots to keep her from contracting the disease. She believes if she hadn’t killed the rabid animal, it would have killed her. “If I had ever let it go, it would have been me, so I made sure I never let it go,” Phillips said. Phillips’ cousin has set up an account to raise money for medical expenses. The first round of rabies shots have already cost her $10,000.