That's when George noticed a massive moose of in the distance. “He was way off. He spotted me, and he started to come right after me. So I was trying to get to the truck. But I didn't make it,” George, a bush pilot from Willow, Alaska, told the Anchorage Daily News.
The moose caught George and began stomping on him in the snow. Fortunately, his 5-foot-tall wife grabbed a shovel from the truck and attacked the moose, taking swing after swing at the animal.
“When it turned and started to go off slowly, I hit it with everything I had,” she said. Finally, the moose retreated, and Tut, one of their dogs, chased it off. Taylor made it out of the fight unscathed, but her husband had seven broken ribs and a 6-inch cut on his forehead. “Well, we've helped each other out of problems before. This just happened to be the latest,” Dorothea said.
Sometimes life happens and situations hit that we're unprepared to face. It's during those times that we desperately need the help and community of other people. When the Moose attacked, George didn't need someone to pray for him. He didn't need to read a book titled Ten Ways To Escape A Charging Moose. He didn't need advice or some sort of cute jewelry with a cross on it to remind him that Jesus is always with him.
He needed someone to come alongside him and beat of the Moose! George would have been in serious trouble if Dorothea hadn't been close enough to help him out.
I'm sure George didn’t set out walking his dogs expecting to face death. But life didn't turn out quite like he'd anticipated. Before he knew it, he was in trouble, and quite unable to get himself out of the situation on his own.
There's no way he could have rescued himself. He needed help! And so do we all.
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