What a sick man. Any response to this across the pond?

GoingNorth

Crazy Cat Lady
SuZir, your issues with foxes and endangered birds, etc., brings to mind the terrible problems Australia and the Hawaiian islands are facing with feral domestic cats; an invasive species which has decimated native animal populations to the extreme.
 

susiestar

Roll With It
The last I heard on this was that US Fish and Wildlife authorities want to talk to him and that the authorities in the country he was in (I forget which country, sorry) are investigating and may attempt to get him sent back for legal action.

If the lion hunt wasn't enough, he also wanted to hunt a large elephant on the same trip. What is it about trophy hunting that makes the hunters want more and more of each species? One never seems to be enough for them.
 

donna723

Well-Known Member
There is a whole lot more to this story than what is in this article. This lion named Cecil was famous in Zimbabwe and was much loved. He and his pride lived protected in a national park. Although still very wild he was used to humans, not afraid, and would come right up to vehicles full of tourists while they took his picture. He and his pride were the subjects of a long-term study by Oxford University and all wore very conspicuous radio collars to track their movements. His pride consisted of 5-6 females, 6-7 cubs, and another younger male lion named Jericho. This despicable dentist is one of the filthy rich trophy hunters who pay thousands of dollars to kill wild, often endangered animals so they can have a trophy to hang on their wall. Trophy hunting is usually only possible for the very, very wealthy. His wife's family owns an international import/export company and their net worth is in the billions. In this case he paid $50,000 for the privilege of killing the biggest of the big lions. And he knew EXACTLY what he was doing. They lured Cecil out of his protected park with food, then the Great White Hunter shot him with a high tech cross bow, probably at close range. And that big radio collar was very visible. But he didn't die right away. Instead he wandered around, wounded and in agony, for over 40 hours before they finally tracked him down and finished him off with a bullet. They then cut off his head for a trophy, skinned him, tried to hide the radio collar, and left the rest of him to rot. His "trophies" were confiscated by the Zimbabwean govt., his cohorts were arrested, while he made it back to the US where he remains in hiding like the big, brave hero that he is! What they also don't say is that when the adult male head of a pride of lions is killed, it usually means that his cubs will die too. Other males will fight to take over his pride and the victor will usually kill the cubs of his predecessor in order to inject his own DNA in to the pride. And many times some of the females will die too trying to protect their cubs. But in this case, it appears that the other adult male, Jericho, has taken over the pride and is protecting the females and their cubs. Every aspect of "trophy hunting" disgusts me! Lions in the wild numbered in the hundreds of thousands a few decades ago. Now there are less than 30,000 of them left. They have called to have him extradited to Zimbabwe to stand trial, while he hides out in one of his many lavish homes that are decorated with his previous trophies. He is easily the most hated man in the world right now. A very active Facebook group has pretty much closed down his dental practice and is calling for him to be held accountable for what he has done. Many celebrity animal activists like Ricky Gervais, Betty White and Bob Barker have joined in. And now the super-secret international hacker group "Anonymous" has put up videos stating that they are going after him! He should be very afraid! And he deserves every single bad thing that is happening to him!
 
Last edited:
Top