Search on for (African) lion in West Virginia hills

Charleston Daily Mail ^ | October 26, 2007

[Shermy]

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[kvanbrunt2]

way cool — an african-american lion. where’s jesse & al?

[SIDENET]

“Nice kitty?”

[JohnBovenmyer]

Well, they are race baiters. The third to last paragraph mentions bait.

[george76]

“When I first saw [the lion], I thought it was a deer,” Shortridge said. “Then it growled at me.”

[potlatch]

"Then it growled at me." - and said, "I ain't lion around waiting to be trapped!"

[glorgau]

the animal was a male African lion. He estimated its weight at 250 to 350 pounds.

An arrow would just piss it off to no end.

[Westlander]

Not if Fred Bear was pulling the string.

[BlackVeil]

Mystery big cat sighting!

Black panthers are also often seen in southern and eastern Australia.

[Dominnae]

I hope people in the neighborhood stay smart about this.

Chances are good that if it’s a “retired” circus cat, it’s
“thoothless” and somewhat people-dependent.

But they can still make short work of someone annoying it.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

The cat ran away after Shortridge yelled at it. Convinced that the potential threat had disappeared, the slightly shaken hunter returned to his vehicle and retrieved his bow. Shortly after he began hunting, the creature came back.

“It paced back and forth, in front of the blind, about 10 yards away,” Shortridge recalled. “I sat and watched him. I kept shining my light into his eyes. The more I put the light on him, the louder he growled.”
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Well,,,This Happens ALL The Time In Louisiana !!
Pesky Kritters them Lionzz,,,
We just grab em by the tail and WHUP their ASS reeeal Good With a Switch,Kick Em in the Rump and holler “Ya’ll GIT!!!”.
Honest...Them LSU Tigers Eats Up Most Of Em...;0)

[Inyo-Mono]

"It had a mane, so I could tell it was a male. And I'm sure it wasn't a bear. Bears are all over Cold Knob. I see six to eight of them every time I go hunting, and I can tell the difference..."

Kind of a strange thing to say, "I'm sure it wasn't a bear," as there is absolutely no mistaking an American black bear for an African lion. Why would he try to clarify such a statement by saying it wasn’t a bear?

[Domandred]

That’s what I was thinking. There is absolutely no way to confuse a bear for a lion. Now I can see an over-active imagination confusing a cougar with a lion...but a bear? No way.

[kalee]

ping

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Shermy for the ping.

[AzSteven]

I imagine the bear comment is a response to the dozens of people who asked him or told him “Are you sure you didn’t see a bear?”

[Libloather]

I’ve been told that I’m a tiger. Does that count?

[baclava]

“Hey skeeter, you see that? Something moving under that bush....I’ll go flush him out....hold muh beer”

[SunkenCiv]

He may sleep ‘til noon, but before it’s dark...