Two weeks ago I talked about a river otter that attacked three women who were tubing down a river in Montana. One of them, Jen Royce, had to be airlifted to a critical care hospital. Now we know how bad it was. She lost half of one of her ears. Besides that, she got hundreds of stitches all over her body. Jen said, “This thing was vicious and relentless. It bit my face in several places, both of my ears, by arms, my hands, my legs, my thighs, and my ankle. My friends were bit on the hands and on their bottoms. One friend’s thumb was SHREDDED and she has bite marks all over her body as well.”
It was one otter against three women in the middle of a river where they were helpless. Jen Royce was in surgery for FIVE hours.
She posted picture from after surgery in the hospital. I don’t say this as a joke, but she looks like she walked into an industrial HVAC fan with steel blades, face first. It looks like she almost lost half of her nose too. That poor woman. At last she’s smiling in one of the pictures.
I’m not going to post the pics, because they might be upsetting to some people. But if you’re okay with seeing a lot of stitches cuts, here’s a link to see all the damage one otter could do to a person.
All three woman also got rabies shots.