Uh oh...mountain lion attacks boy, dad attacks cat

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MyFoxAustin.com

Rivers Hobbs with his father, Jason Hobbs, who stabbed the mountain lion with a pocketknife, causing it to flee.
A 6-year-old Texas boy is recovering after being attacked by a mountain lion while walking with his family at Big Bend National Park.

Rivers Hobbs was attacked late Sunday by the animal as his family returned to their room from the park's main lodge, MyFoxAustin.com reports.

“It sneaked up on me,” Hobbs told the station.

The boy's father, Jason Hobbs, pounced on the mountain lion as it clamped onto Rivers' face. Hobbs ultimately stabbed the animal in the chest with a pocketknife, causing it to flee.

"The cat was clamped onto his face, I reached down and got my pocket knife out and stabbed the cat in the chest and it let go at that point,” Jason Hobbs told the station.

The boy's wounds on the right side of his face took 17 stitches to close. The family is expected to return to their Leander, Texas, home late Wednesday. Once there, Hobbs will have to go though a series of rabies shots, the station reports.

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That dad is one bad dude.

Quick thinking saved his sons life.

fricking beast mode

That's one of those Hobbs from over in Texas done that.

fricking right.

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That dad

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A big hooray for the dad!

When this is all over and the wounds have healed just think about the story that kid will tell. My dad will kick your dads arse because he sliced and diced a freaking mountain lion with little effort!

texas sized pocket knife

Nice!

Wow, I'd do the same for my kids without question. Glad the kid is going to be ok.