A woman who survived a brutal moose attack in Colorado shared the details of her encounter and how she escaped the angry animal.
Chris Ray was walking with her dog, Nala, on a trail near her home on Tuesday when she was Blindsided By An Adult Moose, an encounter she said she was lucky to survive — and won’t soon forget.
“It was maybe like falling off a two-story building,” Ray said during an interview with KDVR. “The moose broke three of my vertebrae in my back and one of my ribs and also did a lot of soft tissue damage, especially around my kidney.”
She recalled being trampled by the animal several times before getting free.
uring her walk along the South Saint Vrain trailhead near Ward, Ray said she heard a strange, unrecognizable noise — an “oo” sound from an unseen animal.
“I heard an ‘oo’ again and I turned around to look and a moose was charging us from the rear,” Ray told KDVR.
“(I) turned away from her trying to get behind the nearest tree, but I tripped over some barbed wire that I didn’t even know was there,” Ray explained. The wire left her with several cuts, but she was not out of the woods yet.
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