My sister has the worst luck…

Bruce Bell Local News – Thursday, August 02, 2007 @ 10:00 The gashes and scratches on Kyla Jones' arms and legs are healing but bear grim testimony to a nasty encounter with a fisher at her home last week. Jones, 26, was watering flowers at her County Road 7 home near Lake on the Mountain at 8:30 p.m. July 24, when she noticed a fisher about 100 metres away in a nearby field. It wasn't long before she was defending her two beloved pet pug dogs from the animal. “I went into the house and called my husband (on the phone) and he said to hit it with a hockey stick if it came near,” she said. “I went out and grabbed the stick and the thing just bee-lined straight toward the dogs, where they were tied up. “I was able to cut it off and hit it with the stick. It came at me four or five times and I finally got it right in the face and it took off. I got the dogs and ran into the house and it came back and came right up on the deck to the door. The thing showed absolutely no fear.” For now the pair of 20-pound pugs, Jaws and Cujo are confined to the house. Jones said an animal was on her deck again Monday night after dark, knocking over a garbage can and table. “I don't know if the fisher is still hanging around, but we used to let the dogs run free in the field and they won't be doing that anymore,” she said. “I don't think it was even full grown yet but it was all teeth and claws, so if I had children I wouldn't be letting kids out in the yard right now.” Although the wounds hurt, the pain doesn't compare with the aftermath of the attack. Jones saw her family physician in Picton the following day and, on Thursday, had her first series of rabies shots that she will have to endure for a month. “The doctor called the health unit and there have only been three confirmed cases of rabies in fishers in Canada and they were all in Manitoba, so this is more of a precaution than anything else.” Jones said, surprisingly, she felt no fear during the battle. “It was stran…