I’d say it was a big, pissed off wildcat.
According to another news report, it was a cougar. I’d rather be around lions or tigers than cougars.
...except for the Courtney Cox variety.
Why do people mess around with these things?
We had a lion kill here (took out a ewe). Everything the enviros say about them is BS. They kill more than one animal, they do not always eat what they kill and never eat in its entirety what they kill, they kill guard animals, and they will come into a barn to get the animals they want. I have had 8 ewes killed in one lion attack. Enviros express surprise when guard dogs and guard animals are killed (llamas and donkeys). A gentleman I do some day work for lost a 450 calf to a lion.
Wake up folks, if it can take a 450 calf, a 300 pound llama,a 150 guard dog, a 200 pound ewe you ain’t diddly to this thing. Relocation is giving your problem to someone else and making it more difficult to remove them later.
Rescue and rehabilitation is idiocy. You may as well have Chuckie Manson as a preschool teacher.
I worked with a man that had shot a cougar in self defense. He rounded some bushes and surprised it while he was deer hunting in the mountains of Northern AZ. He had pictures of it and the deer carcass it was feeding on.
Judging by their record, I doubt it’s a Kentucky Wildcat.......
The sanctuary kept all kinds of wildcats and they haven’t identified which one did it yet.
We have bobcats here. Occasionally you’ll see a sign at a park that reads something like “Warning: bobcat spotted in this area. If you see one, don’t run away. If it attacks you, fight it off however you can”. Well, duh.
Widcats, aka bobcats simply aren’t known for this kind of thing, attacking humans, they’re really pretty small; it’s more than likely a cougar.
It was an ACME wildcat!