{"id":119487,"date":"2023-09-17T15:59:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/?p=119487"},"modified":"2023-09-17T15:59:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T15:59:31","slug":"pregnant-dog-owner-fights-off-eagle-trying-to-carry-away-her-pet-pooch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/world-news\/pregnant-dog-owner-fights-off-eagle-trying-to-carry-away-her-pet-pooch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant dog owner fights off eagle trying to carry away her pet pooch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heavily pregnant woman fought off an eagle after the giant bird of prey swooped down to carry her pooch off into the outer realms of Essex.<\/p>\n

Mum-to-be Marika Smith, from Shoeburyness was out walking her dog Tiny when the attack happened.<\/p>\n

According to the then 36-year-old, she was forced to kick away the huge bird, not once, but twice, after it flew down to grab hold of her small Jack Russell-Pug cross.<\/p>\n

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Marika, who was 20 weeks pregnant at the time, managed to fend off the "enormous bird" which returned for a second go at her dog.<\/p>\n

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Marika said: \u201cI was just walking Tiny when she got attacked by the biggest bird I've seen in my life, I'm 99% sure it was an eagle.<\/p>\n

"It got hold of her and I had to kick it in the chest so many times for it to let go with her and then it attacked again!<\/p>\n

"It landed on my dog and she was screaming and crying.<\/p>\n

"I was trying to get it off my dog and it took a few seconds, but those seconds felt like a lifetime.<\/p>\n

"It was much bigger than me and my dog."<\/p>\n

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Luckily for Marika, a woman who had been driving by stepped in to help her fight off the eagle, when it returned for a second go at the poor dog,<\/p>\n

Marika continued: "The bird then came back and attacked my dog again.<\/p>\n

"I tried to kick it away and my dog was covered in blood.<\/p>\n

The woman who stopped also said it looked like an eagle.<\/p>\n

"It has a blue ring around one of its legs, and a big beak, claws and its wings were bigger than me.<\/p>\n

"I am 20 weeks pregnant and it wasn't very nice what happened."<\/p>\n

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Tiny was left shaken after the traumatic incident and left with cuts to her eyes that were treated by the local vet.<\/p>\n

Marika said that her beloved pet was "fine now" but "was very distressed" and had slept for most of the day.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post Marika thanked the people who came to her and tiny's rescue.<\/p>\n

She wrote: "Thank you so much to the lovely couple that stopped in their car and took me straight to the vets."<\/p>\n

Tiny's not the first dog to be mistaken for lunch.<\/p>\n

Gizmo, a four-year-old chihuahua was taken by a seagull in Devon, reports Daily Star. The search had been called off before the dog had been found due to social media trolls. <\/p>\n

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