U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On Friday, 9 April, 2021, Happy and Kristi Wade were going about a normal morning routine, as shown by their security video. Happy can be seen setting a cup of coffee on the hood of his car, and placing a box of sweets in the back seat.
His wife Kristi comes out. She hears a cat growling. She takes a step back, and a bobcat attacks her from behind. Screaming, she darts between the two family vehicles, with the bobcat biting as it climbs up her back.
Her husband, Happy, comes to her aid. She turns around, and he grabs the bobcat off of her as it nears her neck.
Holding the cat above his head, he suffers three bites until he throws the cat across the yard. After throwing the cat, he draws his concealed pistol, pursues the cat, and shoots it to prevent it from attacking another neighbor.
Later, it is reported the cat had previously stalked a different neighbor, earlier that morning. From wdbj7.com:
WECT reported, Kristi received a number of puncture wounds, scratches and was bitten several times. Happy is then seen grabbing the bobcat and carries it away onto his front lawn.
“I just remember seeing this face and it was trying to bite her right there in the side of the neck,” Happy said. “And so I shoved my arm in and that’s how I ended up with it like this [above his head].”
Happy said he was bit by the bobcat three times before he was able to throw it.
“I thought: ‘I’ll throw it this way,’” Happy said. “Two options: one, it’ll see an escape route and it’ll take off or it’ll stop just a moment where I can get a good shot at it.”
In the comments at the video, Tyrone Power writes:
Dude goes from Mr. Rogers to Dirty Harry in less than 5 seconds. Classic protective husband/dad/pet owner. Respect
You cannot get more American than this. Nowhere else in the world would there be a suburb with both a bobcat and an armed husband to defend his wife.
Happy Wade shows himself as a good citizen, good husband, and armed warrior/protector, all in a few seconds.
Attacks by rabid bobcats are relatively rare. They happen a couple of times a year.
One was recorded in Alabama in 2015. A 62-Year-Old man choked a rabid bobcat that had attacked him in Florida in 2015. A bobcat was killed after it attacked four people in an Arizona town in 2017. A four-year-old girl was attacked in Arizona, at a campground in 2019. Her father ended up wrestling with the cat. An elderly couple was attacked in Florida in 2019.
Healthy bobcats have been known to kill small deer, as was documented with pictures from a trail camera.
Bobcats have adapted well to the suburbs. This correspondent has seen one in Dallas, and my daughter has seen a few over the years she has lived there.
Stories such as these give another meaning to those sightings.
All of the bobcat attacks this correspondent has read of involved either rabid bobcats or mistaken identity attacks on hunters who were using animal calls to attract predators.
About Dean Weingarten:
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
Progressive, liberal, socialist, democrat blm/antifa supporting Bobcat shot and killed by Bobcat hating cops ! Say his name, “Bobcat” ! Cops under suspension during investigation of Bobcat shooting .
The husband deserves kudos for coming to his wife’s defense (as a real man should) and for being armed and having presence of mind to use it. This video was seriously edited but if you find one that is not, the female runner with the pink top is about as dumb as a bag of d – – ks. She mindlessly runs towards the bobcat as it lays on the ground after the husband threw it. This causes the cat to run back towards the house, rather than lay where the husband threw it, where he could control it and… Read more »
NC, especially coastal NC, is being over run with new residents. Land being cleared for hundreds of new homes as people from the north east run away from the mess they helped create. Deer, Bear, cats, snakes, gators, and all wildlife are being forced to move. Many of the new residents bring the ideas that ruined their former state with them.
These days the only thing you don’t walk out of the house without….A Gun!
I couldn’t tell if the woman had a dog or cat in the pet carrier she had in her right hand and if that may have been what the bobcat was trying to get.
Shows why having a handgun on you at all times comes in handy to stop an attack whether it’s animal or human.
Seems I read somewhere it is “down” to about eleven, now. Not something I ever want to experience, for sure. My paternal grandfather used to talk of taking them when he was younger. It did not sound like fun.
“In an explosion of critter race theory, Bobcat Learns Manners”.
There will be a curbside stuffed animal and floral memorial,
and the family of Mr.Cat will be awarded a multi million dollar
government check. Riots, beginning at dusk will be a catered affair.
He might be Happy, but his neighbor wouldn’t have been had he shot her. What the hell was she thinking, getting a wild animal and a guy pointing a gun at it?
This event will serve to be a new draw for all those boring skeet ranges who are looking for a new attraction.. PULL!
It was rabid and had no clue what it was doing. Let’s not go out and kill all our bobcats. The county and the state need to decide the best approach. Cats have a nasty bite and I have a deformed finger to prove it. If a rabid wolverine can kill a grizzly bear by biting the throat then a bobcat could easily kill a human. I had lots of them in Central Florida but they never bothered a human. Hope these people are ok.