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From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowell's Week in Review with Ryan Cali.

Here's Cal.

A four-year-old boy in Washington State was attacked by a mountain lion last month and saved by the quick actions of his father.

The young boy and his parents were hiking a popular trail in Olympic National

Park when the attack occurred. Officials haven't released many details so we don't know whether the

attack was unprompted or if the animal had been approached. But witnesses who spoke to local media

say that the big cat grabbed the child and tried to take him away. His father chased after the lion was able

to rescue his son from what would have been a pretty horrible death. The boy was flown to a trauma

center for treatment but has since been released. The offending cat had been fitted with a tracking

collar so it wasn't difficult to locate the animal and put it down. Mount lion attacks are rare, but this is the second high-profile attack on a child in less than a year.

Last September, a five-year-old was seriously injured after being attacked by a cougar in Malibu Creek State Park.

The kid was playing around his family's picnic table when the cat pounced, apparently unprovoked.

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