Brittany Fincher's mother Christy Slaughter had just dropped off a cup of coffee to her at her east Macon home.
Slaughter was giving a good-bye hug to her grandson when Fincher said a fox appeared from under her mother's car.
"It just slid out and it stood directly in front of me," Fincher recalled about the incident that occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home located near Peacock Recycling.
From the animal's posture, Fincher said she knew her family was in trouble.
"My words were 'what the heck' because I know a fox shouldn't be coming up to us," she said.
Slaughter then moved suddenly and the fox attacked her biting her right calf.
"She was shaking her leg trying to get it off and keep it away from my son," Fincher said.
The fox eventually let go of Slaughter's leg and Fincher said that's when her instincts kicked in.
"I grabbed it," she said. "It was adrenaline, trying to keep it away from my son and I was worried about it going after my mother again."
Fincher said the fox bit her on the wrist when she grabbed it. She said she put the animal in a choke hold.
"I was holding his mouth shut like a gator," Fincher added. "I was going to snap its neck."
Instead, Fincher told her mother to open the cab on her husband's truck and she threw the fox in there. She then called 911. Bibb County deputies and an ambulance came out and called animal control who took control of the fox.
They told Fincher they're glad she didn't snap the animal's neck because that would've prevented rabies test as the virus would've died with the animal. Fincher said she and her mother received a call the following day from health officials who said the fox tested positive for rabies.
The women are now undergoing a series of rabies shots. County health officials said a young girl was also bitten by a fox in Twiggs County last week.
