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Stella the goat shows her wounds, after a battle with a Lynx in Dinorwic earlier this month.
John Cox of Dinorwic was cleaning up in the basement, getting ready for a day of ice fishing, when he got a call from his daughter.

He's in the house, already, so he picks up the call, and he talks with his daughter.

"Dad, where are you?," she asks. "There's a cat attached to our goat!"

He goes upstairs to see what's the matter.

"Sure enough. There's Stella. That's our biggest goat. The mother of the three. She's got this wildcat attached to her neck. Absolutely. The claws are dug into her shoulders. The back claws are dug into her haunches. The mouth was wrapped around her neck, and she was hemorrhaging," Cox remembers.

The goat was screaming, as it tried to use its horns to dislodge the lynx. Cox went back downstairs to get his rifle. It was a British .303 Second World War model, and it came with a bayonet and an extra magazine. Then he went back upstairs, so he could get a shot at the lynx.

"I open the door, and Stella sees me at the door," he recalled. "Just as I open to take the shot, she bursts the door open, and now both animals are inside the living room."

Stella's still trying to still take the wildcat off her back, and she's knocking over furniture. Both animals are still bleeding, as they wrestle inside the house.

"At this point, I'm not sure what to do, except put the rifle back on safe," he recalled.

Cox decides to pistol-whip the lynx. After three strikes, the cat finally lets go of the goat, and a full-out brawl between the two animal ensues.

My daughter's watching the whole thing, but she can't get back into the room. The cat goes into the far side of the house, past the girl.

"It took two leaps. One on top of the sofa, and the other one was directly towards the window," he recalls.

As the wildcat lay stunned on the floor, Cox is considering his options. However, shooting the rifle in the house isn't a good idea. So, he tells his daughter to get back to her room, and he takes a swing at the lynx, knocking it unconscious.

"I'm now kind of bent over catching my breath. Right then, Stella pushes past me, and takes the cat with her horns and throws the cat into the TV stand," he remembered.

"Now, I have an ensuing bar brawl in my other living room. She's bleeding. The cat's bleeding and smashing glass. So, I had to grab Stella and pull Stella off of her. While I'm pulling Stella off, she continues to hoof the cat. She just wouldn't stop," he continued.

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Scene of the fight.
It's still a wild animal. So, Cox takes out the bayonet and prods the wildcat towards the front door.

"As it made its way into the door frame, I stepped into the living room and placed a shot. So ended the confusion, the chaos and the ensuing bar brawl in my house," he said.

Cox said he didn't have a choice. The lynx had a taste of blood, and it would be back to attack more of his livestock. Since he's already lost animals to cats previously, he didn't want a repeat.

"I do see them from time to time around the yard," he said. "But I'd never seen anything like it, let alone inside my house."

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Dead lynx.