An Alaskan woman was walking her dog when a moose attacked her from behind and kicked her in the head.
The shocking encounter was recorded by the camera of a passerby who was passing by.
Tracy Hansen took her dog, Gunner, out for one of her three daily walks last Thursday when she felt something hit her head and she fell to the ground, NBC affiliate KTUU reports.
“I thought someone hadn’t paid attention and hit me with a bicycle or something,” Hansen told the station. “He had put his hands to my head and I thought: ‘I’m bleeding’.”
As Hansen sat up, she realized it was a moose that had hit her, possibly the same moose she had passed earlier on her walk.
“Knowing that the moose had been somewhere behind me and now, here this moose is in front of me, and I’m like, ‘was that the moose?’ Hansen said.
Kate Timmons, also from Anchorage, was driving with her family when she saw the moose charging into Hansen on the sidewalk.
“Oh god, guys, this moose is chasing this person,” Timmons is heard saying in the video before yelling at Hansen, “Watch out!”
Timmons said her husband stopped and they rushed to help Hansen, who was bleeding and needed medical attention.
Hansen told KTUU that he received staples to the head and was still recovering from the bruises, but has returned to his daily walks with Gunner.