As reported via CNN, a 5-year-old boy in Kingstown, North Carolina grabbed a rabid fox by the neck and pinned it to the ground during a family cookout. The boy then held the fox at bay until his stepfather could kill it. "I wanted to protect my little brother," said Rayshun McDowell, who battled the fox in the front yard of his home Sunday.
The fox bit Rayshun in the leg, but the 61-pound-boy held the animal down for more than a minute. His stepfather, Ryan Thompson, then pulled the boy off the animal and kicked it. A neighbor fired a handgun three times but the fox continued to advance. Finally, Thompson, wearing a cast because of a broken leg, used a stick and his crutch to beat the fox to death. Meanwhile, afterwards the boy only asked for a Band-Aid and didn't complain of any pain.
I think it's admirable that this very brave young man sought to defend his family from a rabid fox at the family cookout so kudos to him. However, 61 pounds at five years old? Isn't that freaking huge? I don't think I weighed 61 pounds until I was like 8-year-old and I was a tall kid. I'm thinking perhaps the kid just fell on the fox.
