There's one thing that immediately becomes apparent, and that's that she will have to fight these animals off in order to be able to proceed. She doesn't know if they're real or not. She has to treat them like they're vicious and dangerous, though, because they seem hell-bent on preventing her from carrying out her job here. She begins to fight them off, just as she would do if she had multiple human opponents, swinging her gun as a club and kicking them away. She has no intention whatsoever of settling down and 'relaxing'.