More panther and lion talk
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:17 pm
Alright, this is getting out of hand in my humble town! I personally believe there is some sort of cat that has been in the Kilgore Hills are of clay county for sometime. I personally have had 2 different sightings. So I will leave it at that. This was a article put inthe West Point newspaper yesterday. I think it is pretty funny! So here it is:
Lions and panthers
J.W. Robinson
After writing my Tuesday Column, I called Supervisor Deanes and he gave me further information on the wild animal s out west of town in the wild Kilgore Hills area.
Deanes said after his report came out in the paper, several people called him and told him about seeing both the lions and also a major panther scare in the area.
The supervisor said those people were reporting sighting earlier than his. The supervisor said his sighting was in the vicinity of the gas company lin coming through the area from out west.
One man, Deanes said, reported that near the road a panther chased him up a tree very late in the day and he fought it off when it tried to climb up after it. The man said he fought it off all night and very early next morning, he saw an auto coming, it had men going to work early.
The panther also saw it and left the tree and crossed the road in front of the approaching auto, whose occupants saw it.
After that all-night struggle with the hungry panther, the man was exhausted and in bad condition. The men stopped and took him to see a doctor to get checked out.
Other men reported seeing the lions, Deanes said.
But there were more reports of people seeing the lions than the panther, although a number of people have reported seeing panthers throughout northeast Mississippi in the Tombigbee River bottomland area over the years.
The obvious recommendation of this reporter in this situation is to be careful out in the wild area of the Kilgore Hills especially and do not walk along a country road in that area without a gun and a big dog such as an Irish Wolfhound or a Rhodesian Ridgeback
Incidentally, a shotgun would do no good in this situation unless loaded with buckshot, and a deer rifle would be better. A deer rifle or a long-barreled magnum handgun would be lethal enough.
Lions and panthers
J.W. Robinson
After writing my Tuesday Column, I called Supervisor Deanes and he gave me further information on the wild animal s out west of town in the wild Kilgore Hills area.
Deanes said after his report came out in the paper, several people called him and told him about seeing both the lions and also a major panther scare in the area.
The supervisor said those people were reporting sighting earlier than his. The supervisor said his sighting was in the vicinity of the gas company lin coming through the area from out west.
One man, Deanes said, reported that near the road a panther chased him up a tree very late in the day and he fought it off when it tried to climb up after it. The man said he fought it off all night and very early next morning, he saw an auto coming, it had men going to work early.
The panther also saw it and left the tree and crossed the road in front of the approaching auto, whose occupants saw it.
After that all-night struggle with the hungry panther, the man was exhausted and in bad condition. The men stopped and took him to see a doctor to get checked out.
Other men reported seeing the lions, Deanes said.
But there were more reports of people seeing the lions than the panther, although a number of people have reported seeing panthers throughout northeast Mississippi in the Tombigbee River bottomland area over the years.
The obvious recommendation of this reporter in this situation is to be careful out in the wild area of the Kilgore Hills especially and do not walk along a country road in that area without a gun and a big dog such as an Irish Wolfhound or a Rhodesian Ridgeback
Incidentally, a shotgun would do no good in this situation unless loaded with buckshot, and a deer rifle would be better. A deer rifle or a long-barreled magnum handgun would be lethal enough.
