I sure hope these ladies end up OK. How does the attack effect the mental  process of going out again? To many of us, these outdoor excursions are pretty darn important.

Interesting deal, another human/animal interaction. Animals can't and don't think like humans; they don't have this capacity. On the other hand, humans do have the capacity to think like humans and animals. Pretty important feature in the woods. I'm fortunate enough to never have been attacked, and I've crawled Alaska from one end to the other for 6 decades, and I know there can be a first time. As aware as I am, I'm just sure that I've been seen and spared by some big critter or another:)

When I look at communities in our home state, what I see are smallish groups of people in a large area of land inhabited by animals, such as the notion of who is invading whose space occurs to me. Spacial and respect stuff. These things remind us of how small we really are.