Keep a lion in your backyard....

The family of a young woman killed by a lion in what sounds like a wildly unfit "zoo" is demanding tougher regulations. I was startled by this:

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North Carolina is one of just four states with no laws controlling ownership of non-native big cats. Its rules for owning other wild animals are generally lax.

https://www.greensboro.com/ap/north_...25ecdbc2c.html

So if you can put a lion in your backyard, you can keep him -- until he eats you.

The story is also horrifying in that keepers and cops apparently tried to tranquilize the lion for hours until cops finally shot it. Some suspect that the woman might have survived if she had gotten immediate medical help.

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“It seems clear that if the center had a real plan for how it would react in such a situation, it had rarely or never been practiced,” Black concluded in her letter. “The center apparently made an early decision that she had died, and the priority became saving the lion.” Alex’s body was motionless, her status “unclear,” when law enforcement arrived, the sheriff’s report said. When they finally reached her, she had bled out and died, the autopsy found.

via International Skeptics Forum http://bit.ly/2WlilNl