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Girl recalls being mauled by black bear while jogging in woods
Nina Golgowski
nydailynews.com
Abby Weherell may be the first girl in her seventh grade class to not only pet a wild black bear but survive its brutal attack.
The 12-year-old girl has recalled the horrifying moment a black bear more than twice her size mauled her while she jogged near her grandparents' home in Cadillac, Mich. — and the startling ways she tried to stop it.
Abby was running through the woods Thursday night when out of the corner of her eye she saw the massive several-hundred-pound bear lurking ahead.
"I was terrified," she told ABC of the resulting attack that left her requiring more than 100 stitches. "I was thinking, 'Oh my gosh, this is it, I'm not going to live.'"
Fearing for her life with the bear moving toward her, she turned around and started running the other direction, with the animal following close behind.
"All of a sudden, the bear stopped me and put me down on ground, scraping me and clawing me," she recalled.
When the bear finally stopped and started to leave, the frightened seventh grader quickly got to her feet in a second attempt to run away.
Like the first time, it proved fruitless.
The bear came back, pinning her back down on the ground, but not before giving her room for an attempt at persuasion.
"I started petting it," she now laughs at the move. "I don't know where that came from but I just thought maybe if I petted it, it would like me.
"Well, that did not work so then it got me again," she said.
It was her final decision to play dead that possibly spared her though.
After lying seemingly lifeless on the ground, she says, "it kind of went away and it looked back, and then it just took off."
So did Abby.
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