This Arizona Jogger is Not to be Foxed With

Is jogging really a sport worth blogging about when it’s not in a race or something? We have no idea. We’re gonna do it either way. You might as well read it.

OK so imagine this: You’re out for your morning (or evening) run and all the sudden this crazy ass fox comes out of the underbrush and latches onto your leg.

Now stop. What would you do? Probably shake the possibly rabid animal off and beeline for your car so you can go to the hospital. Or maybe you succumb to your fox wounds on the trail. Either way, the animal is likely to get away.

Well, a certain Michelle Felicetta of Arizona took a totally different approach when she was actually attacked by a fox.

Felicetta was out for a jog when a fox — later determined to be rabid after it attacked an animal control officer — made a run at her leg. Well, hell, let’s just roll out the story:

Michelle Felicetta told deputies she was on a trail Monday at the base of Granite Mountain when the fox attacked, biting her foot. The woman said she grabbed it by the neck when it went for her leg and it latched onto her arm.

Thinking the fox was rabid, she wanted to make sure it didn’t get away so she ran to her car, where she was able to pry open its jaws, wrap it in a sweat shirt and toss it into the trunk.

Very intense. And it’s not like she ran a few feet to her car or even a few hundred feet — she ran A MILE with the thing attached to her arm.

It was later determined that the fox did indeed have rabies. Both the animal control officer and Felicetta received vaccinations after the fact.

We salute you, Michelle Felicetta for fighting off a rabid animal and still getting your run in. We hope they doctors take care of the rabies. Nobody wants to think about what happened to Old Yeller.