AR-News: (US Mountain lion's owner faces charges

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Animal got loose after escaping from car and was shot and killed by police.
By Kevin Leininger
of The News-Sentinel


News-Sentinel photo by Steve Linsenmayer


Sad ending for Sampson
Sampson the cougar, also called a mountain lion, gets a scratch from owner 
Gary Dutcher in this 2003 photo. Dutcher has special permits to keep cougars and 
servals in his northeast Fort Wayne back yard. During a trip home from a 
visit with a veterinarian on Saturday, Jan. 31, Sampson got loose when the car 
Dutcher was driving was in an accident. The cat was shot and killed by police. 
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A return trip from the veterinarian's office turned out to be fatal for a 
mountain lion owned by a Fort Wayne man, who now faces charges for causing the 
very danger some of his neighbors have feared. 
Gary Dutcher was driving his 4-year-old, 140-pound mountain lion Sampson home 
early Saturday evening when his white Camaro crashed into a ditch near 
Stellhorn and Lahmeyer roads. The animal was not in a cage and, even though mildly 
sedated, ran from the car and was found about four hours later hiding in the 
bushes near the Hupe Insurance Services, 7011 Stellhorn Road.



 

full story:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/7855991.htm



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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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