Posted on 05/04/2012 11:29:24 AM PDT by george76
A woman tourist from Britain in a South African game park was mauled by two cheetahs in a horrific attack.
Violet D'Mello was petting the "tame" cats in the petting area of Kragga Kamma Game Park with other tourists when they began attacking an eight-year-old girl. The woman watched in horror as they clawed and bit her leg ...
Suddenly, the cheetahs left the girl and began eyeing the little girl's seven-year-old brother who was trying to flee. Just as D'Mello tried to intervene, the two animals turned their attention to her.
(Excerpt) Read more at in.news.yahoo.com ...
Mistake # 1. There is a reason these are called "wild" animals. People have no business getting close to them or treating them like domesticated animals.
Stupid SHOULD hurt
Her husband Archibald was outside the pen during her ordeal – and took these dramatic photos as the attack unfolded
I’ve been there before. They have a bunch of cheetahs lounging around like house cats. I was a little nervous wandering around, but I sure as hell wouldn’t bring little kids in.
In LOLcat: I can has dum toorist? nom nom nom
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Nice of the husband to document their vacation while his wife is getting chewed by a wild animal.
Dumbass liberals. Want all animals and humans to live as one. This looks like that was coming true. “Living as one”. Just one...him.
bfl
A tame animal is more than just raised by humans from birth so they aren't quite as wild. It took hundreds or thousands of generations of domesticating wolves and only allowing the calmer, more compliant ones to breed while killing, castrating or at least chasing off the wilder ones to turn them into domesticated dogs. And even they will occasionally revert to their instincts and kill people.
Cats on the other hand have been breeding humans for thousands of years to make us more compliant to their needs.
WHO KNEW????
Perhaps this is one of the reasons the late Pope John Paul preached against eco-tourism.
Walt Disney must be spinning in his grave that human’s have decided to take Disney’s humanization of animals so literally! WTH, is wrong with normally intelligent people and the way they interface with critters?
After slipping a few strips of bacon into her pocket.
I notice that she never dropped her camera either...
And that’s how you turn a tourist into a Tourette’s.
Don’t forget that humans have evolved and along the long walk from Olduvai Gorge to now - we learned how to make nifty coats from cats.
I can hear her husband now, during the attack.. “Oh yes, honey.. Hold it right there.. No? Darn! Wait, that’s it, yeah yeah.. Get her get her! Oh this is rich.. Click click.. Click *(chuckle)* click click click”
I have more than a few ex girlfriends that I wouldn't mind having mauled by a wild animal now and then. You know, to lift my spirits when I'm having a bad day.
Are its teeth bigger than mine? Check.
Are its claws bigger than mine? Check.
Can it run WAY WAY faster than me? Check.
Does it not give a flying fig about me, other than how I taste? Check.
I ain’t petting that thing.
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