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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300499,00.html
"We're investigating what will happen to the person who shot the lion," Churchill told the Daily Camera. "We do have laws that allow people to protect their safety and the their livestock. But this is the tricky gray area of it being a dog."
"People inside the home heard the attack on one of three dogs that were chained outside the house, went outside, and started yelling at the adult mountain lion. That's when the lion headed toward the armed man, who shot the cat."
Okay, my two issues with this story are:
1. I don't know how many people in here have had dogs, and I don't know how people value their dogs in Colorado, but every family dog we've ever had has been considered a family member. If anything attacked my dog, you'd better be damned sure that I'm going to defend it as though it were a brother.
2. Um... helLOOOooo? The lion headed toward the man instead of retreating, that's justification by my definition for a wild animal with such a documented history of increasing boldness toward and attacks on human beings.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300499,00.html
"We're investigating what will happen to the person who shot the lion," Churchill told the Daily Camera. "We do have laws that allow people to protect their safety and the their livestock. But this is the tricky gray area of it being a dog."
"People inside the home heard the attack on one of three dogs that were chained outside the house, went outside, and started yelling at the adult mountain lion. That's when the lion headed toward the armed man, who shot the cat."
Okay, my two issues with this story are:
1. I don't know how many people in here have had dogs, and I don't know how people value their dogs in Colorado, but every family dog we've ever had has been considered a family member. If anything attacked my dog, you'd better be damned sure that I'm going to defend it as though it were a brother.
2. Um... helLOOOooo? The lion headed toward the man instead of retreating, that's justification by my definition for a wild animal with such a documented history of increasing boldness toward and attacks on human beings.