Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
Shameful

If they got close enough to shoot it , they could have darted it and returned it to the zoo alive and well

Bet the bloody farmers were moaning about a few sheep the animal may or may not have attacked and the local council decided she was a risk to public safety !!! What a joke , she's not a big cat ff sake , she was probably more scared of people !

Local zoo is outdated and rightly so
A tranquilizer dart takes at least 10 minutes to take effect, a scaredy cat can cover a fair distance in 10 mins.
An Eurasian lynx can bring down wild boar, chamois, young moose, roe deer, red deer, and reindeer.
So it's not a little pussy cat.
What would you have said if it had attacked a child?

Shooting it dead was the right call.