Are poodle furcuts functional? http://slate.msn.com/id/2095247/ Also... Feb. 10, 2004 | PORT SULPHUR, La. (AP) -- A woman who had raised her pet leopard from a cub was mauled by the animal, but survived after a deputy shot the 100-pound cat as its jaws were clamped on its owner's head, authorities said. Julie Miles, 33, of Port Sulphur, was in fair condition Tuesday at West Jefferson Medical Center in Gretna, spokeswoman Benola Cooper said. The leopard, named Jovani, let Miles go Monday after a Plaquemines Parish sheriff's deputy shot it twice, sheriff's spokesman Maj. Charles Guey said. The deputy shot the cat a third time after it crouched to attack again, but the animal was not killed until Miles' brother-in-law, Jimmy Saunier, arrived and killed it with a shotgun blast, Guey said. Miles had been petting Jovani on Monday and was just about to leave when the cat "got hold of her," her mother, Shirley Alesich, told The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. The family said Jovani had always been gentle in the past and that Miles had all the permits she needed for the animal.