The mother of a five-year-old boy is reported to have fought off a mountain lion which attacked her son while he was playing in the garden outside their home in Aspen, northwest Colorado, USA.
According to reports, the boy’s mother was alerted when she heard her son screaming.
She ran out of the house to find the wild animal on top of him.
She then pulled her child away from the beast before her partner called police and started driving the injured boy to hospital.
The child was said to have suffered injuries to his face, head and neck in the attack while his mother was treated for injuries to her hands and legs and released.
