New York Woman Getting Rabies Treatments After Woodchuck Attack

QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A woman is undergoing rabies treatments after she was attacked by a woodchuck while watering the flowers outside her upstate New York home.

The Post-Star of Glens Falls reports the woman was attacked Wednesday morning on her front lawn in the Warren County town of Queensbury, 50 miles north of Albany.

She says she saw the animal charging at her and ran for her front door, but stumbled. The woodchuck bit her shin, but she distracted it by throwing a pillow that was on a porch bench, then made it through her front door.

The town's animal control officer says the animal is suspected to have rabies based on its behavior. The officer searched the neighborhood for the woodchuck, also known as a groundhog, but it couldn't be found.

(Story by: The Associated Press)