US | sea otter Angry Otter Attacks Boy, Grandma Tabitha Moser says she 'just heard him scream for his life' By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Aug 1, 2014 5:15 PM CDT Updated Aug 1, 2014 5:45 PM CDT Copied A river otter stands up after hitting the waterslide at Ichikawa Zoological and Botanical Garden in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda) A river otter attacked an 8-year-old boy and his grandmother as they were swimming in a park in Washington state yesterday morning. The boy's mother, Tabitha Moser, told King-TV that her own mother saved the boy from a worse fate in the Pilchuck River in the town of Machias. "All of a sudden I just heard him scream for his life," Moser said of her boy. "He was just bobbing up and down in the water and as he came up there was something all the way on top of his head." "It followed us all the way up the river," she added, and continued biting her mother as Moser pulled her from the river. "Even after it got into the river and out of our way it stood up on its hind legs looking at us like, 'Don't do it again, don't come in here," she said. The boy was hospitalized with stitches and the grandmother underwent eye surgery that may lead to her losing the eye. State and federal wildlife agents are trying to trap the otter, saying it will likely be killed unless it is a female with pups. Read These Next Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. New York Times ranks the best movies of the 21st century. White House rolls with Trump's 'daddy' nickname. A man has been deported for kicking an airport customs beagle. Report an error