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Hyenas dragged a man from his bed and mauled him to death
CNN ^ | Fri November 20, 2020 | Lianne Kolirin

Posted on 11/20/2020 12:33:48 PM PST by nickcarraway

An elderly man has been killed by a pack of hyenas in Zimbabwe, after they pulled him from his bed while he was sleeping.

The man, who has been identified by the authorities as 87-year-old Tendai Maseka, was dragged about 1,000 feet from his mud and wood hut.

The incident occurred on Monday night in the rural region of Chirumanzu. in central Zimbabwe.

By the time Maseka's body was discovered by villagers, its lower half was missing.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: africa; hyenas; seniors
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To: eastforker
My mother runs a cat shelter. She takes trapped feral cats. We cage them, they are called the rubber hand ones. She uses a rubber hand on a stick to get them used to people.

In my experience only the young kitens can be reasonably made non dangerous. They are so cute and fierce. The full grown are dangerous scary, nonretrievable. Ever.

My mother usually has them neutered, clips an ear, and returns them to the wild.

Anyone who thinks a mere feral house cat aint dangerous never tried to handle one. Even the kittens are more scary than a wasp. I took 7 sutures and a severed vein on the arm trying to put one into a carrier. I would just shoot them, but mom made me understand that neutering and re-release is a better method of diminishing their numbers than extermination attempts.

61 posted on 11/20/2020 2:29:36 PM PST by mmercier0921 (cat people)
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To: Seruzawa

It’s also what happens when humans don’t fear wild animals.


62 posted on 11/20/2020 2:36:15 PM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: nickcarraway

For a second there I thought it was a Portland, Or protest story.


63 posted on 11/20/2020 2:41:00 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: M Kehoe
Some people who live in mud huts have AK 47s.

Friends of yours or are you just surmizin'?

Just askin.......

64 posted on 11/20/2020 2:46:51 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: nickcarraway

I helped my son with his 4th grade report on hyenas, about 20 years ago. We both learned a lot about those nasty and dangerous animals from the research.


65 posted on 11/20/2020 3:44:13 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: usconservative

You’re welcome. I may be a relative noob but I lurked for years and know da rulez.


66 posted on 11/20/2020 3:51:15 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Park rangers are currently hunting for the animals in a bid to “eliminate” them...

“Bad things are happening”

The same pack of hyenas is believed to have been responsible for a recent series of attacks

“We think we know who is doing it”

Locals have been urged to be vigilant, avoid moving around at night and keep all doors and windows closed until the animals are captured.

“Keep your heads down until we contain the problem”

We are on the ground trying to track down the problem animals with a view to eliminating them. If we had enough resources we would have trans-located them...

“Send us more $$ or you won’t be kept safe”

The problem, he added, is largely caused by overpopulation of animals. This has been compounded by the destruction of their habitats by climate change, while the Covid-19 pandemic has made matters worse...

“There are a lot more of them than we thought... they are more aggressive and not behaving or being contained the way we thought they would be”...


67 posted on 11/20/2020 4:24:09 PM PST by Sense
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To: Sense
Your post reads like a synopsis of the Presidential election...
“Bad things are happening”

The same pack of Democrats, antifa, and BLM is believed to have been responsible for a recent series of attacks

“We think we know who is doing it”

Locals have been urged to be vigilant, avoid moving around at night and keep all doors and windows closed until the animals are captured.

“Keep your heads down until we contain the problem”

We are on the ground trying to track down the problem animals with a view to eliminating them. If we had enough resources we would have trans-located them...

“Send us more $$ or you won’t be kept safe”

The problem, he added, is largely caused by overpopulation of Democrats, antifa, and BLM. This has been compounded by the destruction of their habitats by climate change, while the Covid-19 pandemic has made matters worse...

“There are a lot more of them than we thought... they are more aggressive and not behaving or being contained the way we thought they would be”...


68 posted on 11/20/2020 4:36:32 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: mmercier0921

“ I would just shoot them, but mom made me understand that neutering and re-release is a better method of diminishing their numbers than extermination attempts.”

I’d shoot. Problem solved instantly.Why waste time and money neutering them and clipping ears.

BTW, same treatment for feral attorneys!


69 posted on 11/20/2020 4:44:30 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead... )
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To: mmercier0921

When I lived in the high desert I always had to deal with feral cats, they are mean bastards.

People would just dump their unwanted kitty up there and tell themselves “it will be OK, cats can hunt and live like that”.

They are right; the ones that survive and breed tend towards the larger and meaner side, a 25 to 40 pound feral cat is nothing to mess with without a 12 gauge shotgun and 00 ought shot.


70 posted on 11/20/2020 5:21:31 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: nickcarraway
At Kruger National Park we stayed in a tree hut.We joked about the possibility of a lion or a leopard climbing the ladder and attacking us.The closest we came to that was seeing several Nyala (which are basically lions’ snacks) on our way to the bathroom.
71 posted on 11/20/2020 5:44:01 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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To: nickcarraway

72 posted on 11/20/2020 5:45:23 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: nickcarraway

Did he vote? After his demise?


73 posted on 11/20/2020 5:45:42 PM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: Salamander

Oh wow!.....those are amazing photographs!


74 posted on 11/20/2020 5:48:59 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: mmercier0921

So don’t invade their space.


75 posted on 11/20/2020 6:28:42 PM PST by Silentgypsy (Call an addiction hotline and say you're hooked on phonics.)
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To: null and void

;D


76 posted on 11/20/2020 8:37:54 PM PST by Salamander ( What you bought, you owned, and what you owned eventually came home to you.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

By neutering them and releasing them they occupy areas that would otherwise be taken by viable breeders.

They clip the ears so they can identify and release the already neutered ones they trap.

Usually you can keep the kittens and get them reasonably domesticated. The hardest part is getting the kittens without losing a finger.

My mother has been at this for 30 years. I probably helped civilized about a hundred feral kittens. It is actually fun, to me.


77 posted on 11/21/2020 4:27:23 PM PST by mmercier0921 (wat will you do with the drunken sailor)
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