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| Lion Slipped Out Of Holding Pen Before Killing Sanctuary Worker by 190: 1:02am On Mar 09, 2013 |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The African lion that killed a California wildlife sanctuary worker had slipped out of its holding pen, which apparently was left improperly secured, and crept up on the woman inside a larger enclosure to attack her, the coroner said on Friday. Dianna Hanson, 24, an intern at the Cat Haven sanctuary east of Fresno, died almost instantly on Wednesday after the big cat, a male named Cous Cous weighing at least 400 pounds (181 kg), snapped her neck, according to an autopsy conducted on Thursday. Hanson was cleaning the larger enclosure when the lion escaped from its holding pen, apparently by lifting a gate that slides open and shut vertically, Fresno County Coroner Dr. David Hadden told Reuters. "The gate is kind of like a guillotine. It comes down and hits the base of the ground. If that gate wasn't all the way down, the lion could have put its paw under the gate and pushed it up, and the gate is designed so that it would stay up," he said. Hadden said the lion was being fed at the time, though he was not sure if Hanson was the one who left food for the animal. "The lion did not touch its food. It was more interested in what she was doing, and it ran in and attacked her," he said. "she had been talking on her cell phone shortly before the attack and we found a damaged cell phone on the scene." More on http://news.yahoo.com/woman-killed-caged-lion-california-died-suddenly-broken-005711456.html |
| Re: Lion Slipped Out Of Holding Pen Before Killing Sanctuary Worker by 190: 1:04am On Mar 09, 2013 |
I feel for her and her family. Cats have an ingrained killing instinct regardless of familiarity. House cat owners are just lucky they are far larger than their pets. Trust me, Snowball would take you down if he could. |
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