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From the cozumel news in English. I especially like the bit about the lion's owner saying "If anyone sees it, they should notify him" and "It won't eat people unless they bother it"
I love Mexico!!!
LION LOOSE ON TRANSVERSAL
El Semanario de Cozumel
Several people that live in this zone claim that a lion's footprints have been seen and that a burro has been eaten. According to an investigation accomplished by Cozumel's Semanario, we managed to find out that the aforementioned lion walks along the roadside on the transversal road and that ejidatarios (natives) have seen it.
Once this subject was brought up, it came to light that he has already eaten a burro and they are afraid he will next go on to eating cattle or perhaps even people who might be taking a nature outing in the scrubland.
Likewise, we managed to find about that an ejidatario met the lion while drawing water from a well and started to run away to safeguard his life, because he was afraid of being attacked..
The lion's owner, Don Agustín admitted that the animal escaped after monkeying for a long time with the padlock on his cage which he finally managed to break and afterwards get away.
He indicated also that the lion is playful and if somebody sees it, they know he's the owner and should just inform him.Likewise he manifested that perhaps he could be caught and the best way to do this would be to find where he takes water and go there with the cage with pieces of meat inside it to lure the lion in. .
With a deep sentiment of pain, Don Augustín said that he never imagined this might happen and that he will regret very much if he loses his pet which he has owned since the lion was a cub. Also he said that he will not eat people unless they bother him,but when he gets hungry he will eat cattle or other animals in which case it is recommended that they kill him.
And, since there is no news of his lion, he will grant a thousand pesos of reward for the animal dead or alive. If a person feels threatened by the lion, he can kill him and keep the skin or else they can take it to his house located on the same transversal road.
He told us about his longed-for dream of having a mini-zoo tourist attraction which could not come true because the authorities would never give permission to construct this place.It would have been an attraction for the tourist who could have left payment at his entrance to pay for the feeding and care of the animals that are now in his house and include at this time deer, wild pigs, monkeys, doves, geese and many other animals' species.
But because as things are now, he no longer has the resources to keep on maintaining the lion, he grieves.
I love Mexico!!!
LION LOOSE ON TRANSVERSAL
El Semanario de Cozumel
Several people that live in this zone claim that a lion's footprints have been seen and that a burro has been eaten. According to an investigation accomplished by Cozumel's Semanario, we managed to find out that the aforementioned lion walks along the roadside on the transversal road and that ejidatarios (natives) have seen it.
Once this subject was brought up, it came to light that he has already eaten a burro and they are afraid he will next go on to eating cattle or perhaps even people who might be taking a nature outing in the scrubland.
Likewise, we managed to find about that an ejidatario met the lion while drawing water from a well and started to run away to safeguard his life, because he was afraid of being attacked..
The lion's owner, Don Agustín admitted that the animal escaped after monkeying for a long time with the padlock on his cage which he finally managed to break and afterwards get away.
He indicated also that the lion is playful and if somebody sees it, they know he's the owner and should just inform him.Likewise he manifested that perhaps he could be caught and the best way to do this would be to find where he takes water and go there with the cage with pieces of meat inside it to lure the lion in. .
With a deep sentiment of pain, Don Augustín said that he never imagined this might happen and that he will regret very much if he loses his pet which he has owned since the lion was a cub. Also he said that he will not eat people unless they bother him,but when he gets hungry he will eat cattle or other animals in which case it is recommended that they kill him.
And, since there is no news of his lion, he will grant a thousand pesos of reward for the animal dead or alive. If a person feels threatened by the lion, he can kill him and keep the skin or else they can take it to his house located on the same transversal road.
He told us about his longed-for dream of having a mini-zoo tourist attraction which could not come true because the authorities would never give permission to construct this place.It would have been an attraction for the tourist who could have left payment at his entrance to pay for the feeding and care of the animals that are now in his house and include at this time deer, wild pigs, monkeys, doves, geese and many other animals' species.
But because as things are now, he no longer has the resources to keep on maintaining the lion, he grieves.
