Very Important Day In History

[Leo Tanner]

I WANNA SHOOT IT!!!

     Is there a bounty?  That would make it even better.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Bro. Sleep, You take good care of Ellie Belle till they take care of the cat problem.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

A cat that big is a chinese buffett! 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Had a woman on TV last night said that she had a cat escape from her house...

showed a picture, it looked like a small cheetah, fergit what she called it.

Could be an [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelot]ocelot[/url].

Slim

[Tensleep]

Naw Slim, it wasn't an Ocelot, dern things had BIG ears an' black spots on ah tawny coat.

She called tha name but it didn't sound familiar.

Doan worry 'bout Ellie TLD, we are 'bout 15 miles away.

[Ozark Tracker]

They had a big cat (liger, cross between a lion and a tiger) that killed a guy over at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma a few weeks back, they must be bad.

Massive liger - cross between lion and tiger - mauls U.S. volunteer to death after he breaks rules to enter its cage

...Peter Getz, 32, suffered fatal puncture wounds in his neck and back as Rocky, who weighs twice that of an ordinary lion and is 20 times more powerful than a human, pounced on him during feeding time.

An investigation was under way last night into why Mr Getz, an accomplished big cat keeper, broke with protocol and entered Rocky's enclosure at Safari's Animal Sanctuary in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Bleeding heavily, he hauled himself out of the enclosure with help from two fellow keepers but collapsed outside and was airlifted to hospital, where he died last night.



Dangerous: A liger - a cross between a male lion and female tiger
- like the one that killed Peter Getz


...Rocky, who came to the sanctuary from a zoo in North Carolina that closed because it went broke, is so powerful that his toys were bowling balls and he would ordinarily be fed fresh meat via a pole poked through the fence....

....The non-profit Safari's sanctuary is run by volunteers and regulated by state wildlife officials, who were investigating last night.

They will determine whether Rocky will have to be euthanised....the refuge...is home to around 200 rescued animals. Mr Getz had volunteered there for over a year...

[Trinity]

And I always thought the Liger was a fantasy animal invented by Napoleon Dynamite.  I feel cheated now.

[Ozark Tracker]

ole Napoleon Dynamite wasn't lying

[Texas Lawdog]

I wonder if this mystery cat could be one of Jerry Clower's "souped up wildcats"?

[Tensleep]

Good mornin'... 50 an' tha rain has stopped for a bit.

Getz, the man that the liger killed, was a nephew of one of our local shooters. 
The story that they were told was that Rocky's gate was not latched and when Getz entered the runway with a deer carcass on his shoulder Rocky hit the gate which hit Getz knocking him down. Rocky then attacked the meat and also got Getz.
We are praying for the family.

[Arcey]

Couple of the peninsula folks told me it was his son. Looked it up when I got home 'n it was Getz. Didn't match but stranger things have happened or been said. Got werd later it was his wife's nephew.

Been wonderin' how RJs doin'.

[Tensleep]

RJ is OK.
His wife is still a bit shaken as of last Sunday.

[Texas Lawdog]

That Ligar is a huge animal and even though it has grown up around humans, it is still a wild animal. It saw and smelled the deer carcass and reacted like a wild animal.

[Silver Creek Slim]

November 14, 1888 - USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game.

Slim

[Texas Lawdog]

Boola Boola!

[Arcey]

RJ is OK.
His wife is still a bit shaken as of last Sunday.

Thanks.

[Texas Lawdog]

In 1832, on this day the first streetcar ran in New York City.

[Sod Buster]

A cat that big is a chinese buffett! 

KUNG PAO KITTY!!!

[Texas Lawdog]

Is Jack Black doing the voice overs?

[Russ T Chambers]

Meant to post this yesterday, but better late than never:

145 years ago these words were spoken over a great battlefield cemetery:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.