Posted on 05/06/2011 12:38:39 PM PDT by eccentric
A 7-year-old boy is hospitalized after being attacked by a leopard at the Sedgwick County Zoo.
Dispatchers said the call came in just before 1:30.
Zoo officials said the boy climbed a guardrail to get closer to the leopard cage. The leopard was able to reach the child with both of its paws, injuring the boy on his neck. The boy suffered wounds on his neck and face.
The zoo official said people riding the zoo tram saw the attack, jumped off and scared the leopard away.
Via Christi on St. Francis reports that the child is now in fair condition.
Zoo officials do have the animal under control.
All zoo visitors have been asked to move to the front entrance as authorities investigate the incident. KAKE'S Deb Farris said the zoo remains open.
According to a USD 259 spokesperson, the student was from Linwood Elementary School.
Raccoons can has cheezboi.
Leopards and tigers are the most beautiful of cats, as long as they aren’t looking at you as a snack.
Leopard: “People are tasty”
Raccoons are evil!!
I had a red husky with amber eyes and never showed any predator motions, but once I had a saleman step into my vestibule and the dog came around the corner, froze when he saw the guy, dropped his head and eyeballed him with those amber eyes and scared the crap out of the salesman... His favorite sport was wrestling and chewing up things like carpet, shoes, (no furniture) and digging fox holes in the back yard...sorry that I had to give him away when he learned to climb the fence and roam the sub...
“The problem with fool-proofing is that fools are so ingenious.”
LOL and people have no fur we have to chew though first. Meat close to the surface....
good John Wayne movie...
LOL smart ranger...
“Did you ever think, “I wonder what would happen if one of those kids go too close to one of the big cats?”
I was in Yellowstone and watched an old guy walk his grandson over to a buffalo to pose for a picture. I was just about to say something when it butted him in the back and he face planted in the grass. His son gave me a dirty look when I burst out laughing.
LOL!!
Yeah, nothing is more obnoxious than a drunken pug! /sarc
I do agree about fools and fool proofing, but a 7 year old? That was one determined 7 year old, or someone didn’t think very hard about fool proofing. Still, if that kid was with a school group I smell a lawsuit involving the zoo and the school.
Yeah, one of the best. Red Buttons was soooo funny!
Sorry, just hate to see guilt applied to an animal that reacts to an event that comes naturally. We need to see the pics of the guilty parent(s)!
When I lived in N. Maine years ago, my friends and I were on a camping trip and visited one of the "bear dumps", one of those garbage dumps that were a tourist attraction, no longer open to the public, of course. Too many stupid people. I witnessed people getting out of their cars with their kids, to get a photograph of those docile creatures up close. We'd tell them that's not a good idea, but black bears in that setting are so docile-seeming. Couldn't convince these people, if that bear decided to become irritated, he could be on them in a second, beating them like a rag doll.
I have a photo of one of those bears from that evening, with his paws comfortably on the roof of a Grand Cherokee, which is about 7 ft high. He must have been well over 500 pounds.
The kid will have something interesting to talk about when he gets older.
Thankfully, most of us survive youthful decisions.
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