British Columbia, Canada - An eight-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was attacked by a cougar while camping, with doctors calling his survival miraculous.

According to the Daily Star, Cason Feuser was mauled in a horrific attack on July 31 near the Bishop River in British Columbia. He was camping with his sisters, and four others, when a huge cougar snatched the boy by the head, per the Daily Star.

The big cat then tried to kill Carson quickly, by shaking him.

But luckily, one of Carson's fellow campers – family friend and nurse Alishea – acted quickly and threw a rock on the wild animal.

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Per the Daily Star, Alisha recalled: "I saw Cason within the cougar's jaws. The cougar tried to pull him up towards the campsite as all the kids were running towards the trailer."

She added, "I looked at the cougar and reacted how any mum would and I grabbed a rock and hit the cougar in the head."

The cougar dropped his victim and got chased away by Alishea's dogs. But Carson was so badly injured that she wasn't sure he'd even make it to the hospital. He was flown to Alberta for care.

A Facebook post by his Cason's mother, Chay, picked up the story from there.

"We made it to the hospital just in time to kiss him say hello and at the same time say goodbye and hand him over to the surgeons where he spent 3.5 hours in surgery," she wrote.

Carson needed "over 200 staples and surgical clamps, and many more stitches over his face, neck, and head."

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Chay said her son's survival was "a miracle. No main arteries were hit, no lungs punctured, his skull is intact."

She's not the only who feels that way. Carson's doctor was equally amazed.

"He just kept saying it was a miracle, his airway was missed by one millimeter, his jugular got missed and his skull wasn't cracked," Chay added, per the Daily Star.