For years Richard Field was traumatised by a lion attack during his time as a Botswana safari guide, but joining Bite Club with other predator survivors has helped him come to terms with his experience.
abc.net.au/news/bite-club-welcomes-man-mauled-by-lion-among-predator-survivors/101699554Richard Field was only 25 years old when he thought he was going to be killed by a lion.Driving an open vehicle with clients in the back he came across some "super fresh" tracks of a lioness and her cubs."I saw one of the little cub tracks and I knelt down because I had never seen cub tracks that small before," he said.
"I heard rustling in the bush and looked up and there was a lioness and she was coming at me full pace."Richard Field, pictured with then-fiancée, Beck Fraser, lived and worked as a safari guide in Botswana in his 20s."She bit down on the back of my head, and I started tasting blood," Mr Field said.His safari group had come to the rescue, with one of his clients getting behind the wheel and driving at the lioness, chasing her off.Mr Field spent six weeks in hospital.
It took him a year to return to the bush and start guiding again but the emotional recovery took much longer."I eventually realised that I couldn't get away with hiding my story. It was always going to be there."Mr Field said it was hard to find people who understood his situation as he tried to recover from the traumatic experience.
The group was originally for shark attack survivors but soon opened its doors to other animal attack survivors as well.
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