Indians For Guns

This article reminded me of 'Kariya'- the friendly mongrel that accompanied the 'Machinbele gang' during fishing trips and was said to have been killed by a leopard.

Karkala, Nov 14: An uninvited guest, a leopard from the jungle arrived in the urban area near St Lawrence Pilgrimage centre, Attur, which comes under the jurisdiction of Nitte village, on Monday, November 12 night. The leopard was found in an open well near the famous Attur church.

The leopard on its urban sojourn had eaten a pet dog which was chained in the courtyard of one Gulabi Poojarthy, on Monday night. It was found to have fallen in their open well, when it was retreating to the jungle.

Though the inmates of the house had heard dog barking in the night, none of them had woken up. But when they woke up on Tuesday November 13 morning, the family found the carcass of the dog all along with the chain, being pounced by the leopard. However, when the family members went to fetch water from the well, they found the leopard swimming in the water.

The news of leopard being trapped in the open well, spread across the village and drew large number of on-lookers to the spot. The forest department was informed along with the fire brigade. The fire brigade personnel dropped a ladder into the open well and all of them waited for the leopard to make an escape from the well.

However, the leopard did not respond to the idea. But the effort of locals in dropping a large net succeeded in bringing the leopard out of the well, with the help of a rope. The brave locals, Annayya, Lancy Roshan, Ashok, Jaya, Nagaraj, Noel Victor and Peter, played a major role in saving the leopard. Once up, the leopard disappeared in the nearby forest.

Link to the article

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_dis ... near+Attur

Good on them. The normal response would have been to kill it.

I was thinking how it should have felt staying the whole night in the well

.....last year at a frends house the cops had to be called to rescue the uninvited guests ...thives who had broken into their basement were found dead drunk at the bar....they left behind a cache of stuff stolen from the neighbours house.

art_collector";p="31302 wrote: .....last year at a friends house the cops had to be called to rescue the uninvited guests ...thieves who had broken into their basement were found dead drunk at the bar....they left behind a cache of stuff stolen from the neighbours house.

Moral of the story - store plenty of liquor at home!

Did the intelligent fire brigade personnel really think that the leopard would climb up the ladder ?

The Fire Brigade would have proably put in the ladder even if it was dead! Probably some 1932 drill act from their books

A ladder for the leopard to climb out is as intelligent as leaving condoms in the jungle to control animal population.

art_collector";p="31362 wrote:leaving condoms in the jungle to control animal population.

Doesn't seem to work with humans either