A Chino Valley, Ariz., woman said she is receiving a series of shots after she ran a mile and a half with a rabid fox hanging from her arm.

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Michelle Felicepta, 30, said she encountered the fox while she was jogging in the late afternoon Monday at the base of Granite Mountain, The (Prescott, Ariz.) Courier reported Thursday.

"I knew something was wrong when its eyes locked in on me," Felicepta said.

Felicepta said the fox bit her foot before she grabbed it by the neck.

"As soon as I grabbed its neck, it started thrashing and grabbed my left arm," she said.

She said the rabid animal clamped down on her arm so hard that she had to run the mile and a half back to her car with the fox in tow. Felicepta said she managed to pry the fox's jaws open and throw it in her trunk before driving to the hospital.

Dwight D'Evelyn, spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, said the fox also bit a Yavapai County Animal Control officer who was trying to retrieve the animal from Felicepta's trunk.

D'Evelyn said Felicepta will require five rabies shots during the next few weeks, while the animal control officer will only need two or three due to a pre-exposure rabies vaccination.