Dragaera

domesticated animals

Wed Feb 11 07:31:20 PST 2004

Plaguemines Parish ??!?

I am not sure that I would want to live near a plaguemine.

Philip Hart wrote:

> 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.