A young shorthaired Australian Shepherd is lucky to be alive after a mountain lion grabbed her by her head and tried to carry her away on her owners’ rural property near Newcastle.

Shelley Williamson told Cowboy State Daily that she and her husband, Robert, were getting ready for church early Sunday when she heard a strange noise and looked out a second-story window into the driveway.

At first, she couldn’t quite grasp what she was seeing.

“Then it dawned on me that she (her dog, Dottie) was lying next to a mountain lion, with her head in the mountain lion’s mouth,” she said.

She tried to make noise to frighten the mountain lion off, but it didn’t work.

“It didn’t even flinch at the noise, I was banging on the window screen and hooting at the mountain lion,” she said.

The encounter e

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