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A Vancouver Island man punched a cougar in the face Monday to rescue his two-year-old girl from its jaws.

Travis Nielsen’s daughter, Bree, suffered some puncture wounds in the sudden attack, but is otherwise doing fine.

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“She was crying but she’s OK,” said his wife, Andrea Nielsen. “She’s got some small puncture wounds just above her right ear, one on her back and then a couple on her chest.”

The cougar pounced while the three of them were sitting in their backyard in Tahsis on the west side of Vancouver Island.

“(Bree) was sitting with a six-week-old puppy and we were just kind of looking at the ocean and enjoying the day and then all of a sudden from behind the shed, my daughter was attacked.”