BREAKING NEWS – Athens, Georgia – A Georgia grandmother claims she strangled a rabid bobcat to death after it jumped on her in an unprovoked attack. DeDe Phillips, of Hart County, was taking a picture of a new bumper sticker that she placed on her truck when she heard the neighbor’s dog frantically begin to bark. When she looked around, she saw a bobcat just steps away. The feline then “took two steps and was on top of me. … It came for my face,” Phillips, 46, told the Athens Banner-Herald. “It caught me slightly on my face, but I got him before he could do much damage there. I took it straight to the ground and started inching my hands up to its throat. I knew that was the only way I was getting out of this,” she recalled. PETA referred to the woman as a coldhearted killer. “She had no right to strangle that bobcat,” the animal’s right organization argued. “At the most, the cat would’ve scratched her face up, which could be corrected with some plastic surgery, or given her rabies, which is curable. But instead, she applied lethal force to the feline. Hopefully the district attorney will conduct a full and thorough investigation to determine if this was premeditated murder.”
