My friend Jan in Namibia is currently playing "cat and mouse" with a cheetah that's been circling his goat pen the past week. It's a combination of regular low, woven wire fence with a couple of meters of thorn bushes extending outside beyond the wire. He's sat a couple of nights but, the cat is pretty clever and never gets close enough to see while he's there.
Side story - one of his childhood classmates is part of the "Africat" foundation in Namibia. To be honest, they have done some pretty good work. Anyway.....We were going to a store in Windhoek one day and Jan was explaining about a text message he'd received the previous day from her about one of "their collard lions". It was directed to him as President of the conservancy area (nearly 1m US acres). She was asking him to please ask all the members of the conservancy to NOT kill one of their collard lions that had been killing cattle for the past several months. Just as we were getting out of the truck, she just happens to pull into the parking lot. They exchange polite greeting in Afrikaans (I speak and understand a little bit) and she asks him if he got her message. He said he did and she continues about please don't kill "her" lion etc and Jan just lets her prattle on a bit and finishes her side. Jan says why sure, they'd be more than happy to leave "her" lion alone provided "she" paid the ranchers for all the cattle and small stock it had killed and will kill in the future. Oh, we don't have that kind of money to which Jan replied, neither do we! Either find your lion and remove it from the conservancy, pay the bill or it will meet it's maker.
And THAT is the biggest problem with the anti hunting and animal rights people and groups, they expect "the bills" to be paid for their altruistic ideals and not themselves.
