VIDEO: Colorado Woman Describes Surviving Unprovoked Moose Attack

A 79-year-old woman was attacked by a moose earlier this month and is sharing her story about the unprovoked attack.

“I was hit by a moose. That was big. And heavy. And he didn’t like me,” Janne Schultz told FOX31.

Schultz was hospitalized at Denver Health and has been there for a week-and-a-half after the attack.

It happened on Friday, August 13, while she took a dog for a walk in a rural area south of Glenwood Springs.

“You know what? I thought it was a human being first. I said, ‘Oh, god, are there bad people up here, too?’ But then I realized it was the moose,” said Schultz.

She waited for the moose to move along but was surprised when the thousand-pound moose started stomping on her.

“I thought to myself, ‘This is it. This is it,” said Schultz.

Eventually, the moose ran off and Shultz was flown to Denver health with nine broken ribs, a cracked collar bone, a shattered scapula, and a fractured vertebra.

After being worked on by Dr. Fred Pieracci and another surgeon, Schultz is expected to head home soon.

“She looks better than I do, and probably feels better,” Pieracci told FOX31. “She’s defied all of our expectations.”

“I’m very grateful for what has been done here and my life today,” Schultz said.