Alright. Enough. Just stop.
Just stop with this and hijacking every lion thread to talk about aborted babies.
Of course aborting babies - and especially selling their body parts, is horrid and wrong.
I’ve joined others and spent many an hour picketing our local abortion clinics- and now thankfully we haven’t a single one left in our city.
But luring this beloved Lion off the refuge , shooting him with a bow and arrow then a gun and cutting his head off for a trophy is also horrid- and the sorry sob that did it ought to be strung up.
I’m sorry, but I love animals. Let the flaming begin.
Through all the hysteria over this, we still don’t have a clear account.
It seems at least plausible that the hunter (which Zimbabwe actively invites) got some charlatan guides who coaxed Cecil the Pussy Cat off the preserve to be the sacrificial lion. And the guides have more explaining to do than the hunter does. Either a desperation move or a cheap move... it would take longer to locate a lion who wasn’t already a local pet.