There is a moose, loose! Woman is kicked in head by rampaging beast as she walked her dog in Alaska
Tracey Hansen was out walking her dog when a delinquent moose tackled the pair from behind leaving her dazed and bloody
Hansen, who has since received three staples in her head, said she at first thought it was a careless biker who had hit her
Good Samaritan Kate Timmons and her family caught the incident on camera and shooed the moose off before offering her assistance
A woman walking her dog has been viciously trampled by a rogue moose in a freak encounter in Anchorage, Alaska.
Tracey Hansen was left dazed and bloodied after the beast charged up from behind and kicked her in the head while she was out with her pet Gunner.
A motorist driving past captured the horrific moment on camera and could be heard trying to warn Hansen of the danger closing in.
Hansen, who takes Gunner for the same walk three times a day, said she initially thought 'someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something.'
I had put my hands up to my head, and I'm like, 'I'm bleeding,'' she told Alaska News Source.
It wasn't until she sat up and took stock of the situation and saw the animal in front of her that she realized a moose had mowed her down.
Just moments before the moose attacked, Kate Timmons and her family drove up alongside Hansen, who was walking on the side of Old Seward Highway at the time.
Timmons, in addition to recording the incident, attempted to warn Hansen about the moose who was chasing behind her.
Afterwards they shooed off the moose and rushed to help the woman.
'My husband was able to pull her over the snow bank, so we could get her in the truck with her dog and kind of get her out of the way,' Timmons said.
'It definitely seemed unprovoked from our standpoint and it happened so fast it was just like, a matter of getting her out of the situation, getting her help, making sure, you know my big thing was that she didn’t have a head trauma, that there wasn’t a bleed or something.'
Timmons added she was worried about what could have happened if her family didn't witness the attack and provide aid on the scene.
