Cat kills Bald Eagle...

[Josh]

Officials at the National Zoo suspect that a large cat got into a bald eagle's enclosure and killed the bird, perhaps already weakened by fierce storms and unable to fly. It is the latest in a series of animal deaths at the zoo. The male eagle died Friday morning, the same day that the zoo celebrated a new exhibit designed especially for bald eagles hurt in the wild.

The dead eagle was housed separately from the zoo's two new eagles that were donated by American Eagle Foundation based at singer Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The 21-year-old eagle, found by a zookeeper early Thursday, had severe puncture wounds to his abdomen and back, spokeswoman Julie Mason said. Zookeepers suspect a large cat crept into the cage and attacked the eagle, who could have been injured during Wednesday night's fierce rain storms.

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[MacGaven]

Hilarity ensues.

 

[ElFenix]

like a house cat or a zoo cat?

 

[KingNothing]

lol, just lol

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
like a house cat or a zoo cat?

I believe a house cat. It just says "large cat", so I'm assuming it's a normal cat.

 

[Fausto]

Further support for my opinion that people who let their cats roam should be soundly beaten.

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: Josh

Originally posted by: ElFenix
like a house cat or a zoo cat?

I believe a house cat. It just says "large cat", so I'm assuming it's a normal cat.

what? a house cat is a large cat? i haven't been to the zoo lately but i don't think they have a house cat display...

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Further support for my opinion that people who let their cats roam should be soundly beaten.

Ahem:

"It very likely is a bobcat, but we haven't for a 100 percent identified it as a bobcat, but I think we're leaning toward that," said Bill Xanten, zoo general curator.

Viper GTS

 

[bootymac]

"It very likely is a bobcat, but we haven't for a 100 percent identified it as a bobcat, but I think we're leaning toward that," said Bill Xanten, zoo general curator.

Oh yeah it's a house cat alright

Edit: beat me to it

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Further support for my opinion that people who let their cats roam should be soundly beaten.

Ahem:

"It very likely is a bobcat, but we haven't for a 100 percent identified it as a bobcat, but I think we're leaning toward that," said Bill Xanten, zoo general curator.

Viper GTS

Further support for my opinion that people who keep exotic animals like bobcats and then let them roam should be soundly beaten.

 

[ScoobMaster]

For those who have *NOT* seen a bald eagle up close..............

there is no way a domestic "house cat" (includes stray/wild/whatever) is going to take an eagle. The eagle could rip the tabby apart with its talons and carry it off!

Now a Bobcat or Mountain Lion.............

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: drum

Originally posted by: Josh

Originally posted by: ElFenix
like a house cat or a zoo cat?

I believe a house cat. It just says "large cat", so I'm assuming it's a normal cat.

what? a house cat is a large cat? i haven't been to the zoo lately but i don't think they have a house cat display...

Have you ever seen a Maine my excellent compatriot (large breed of housecat)? Those cats get BIG, compared to your average housecat. I saw some of them at a cat show a few months ago, and they are built like brick sh!thouses....

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: drum

Originally posted by: Josh

Originally posted by: ElFenix
like a house cat or a zoo cat?

I believe a house cat. It just says "large cat", so I'm assuming it's a normal cat.

what? a house cat is a large cat? i haven't been to the zoo lately but i don't think they have a house cat display...

Have you ever seen a Maine my excellent compatriot (large breed of housecat)? Those cats get BIG, compared to your average housecat. I saw some of them at a cat show a few months ago, and they are built like brick sh!thouses....

no, i've never seen them. however, if it says "large cat" thats not whats going to pop in my mind. thinking that it was a "normal" housecat that killed an eagle is slightly proposterous

 

[glen]

Eagles are like 2 and half feet tall when they squat down to rest.
HUGE birds.
Must have been some cat.

 

[idNut]

Zoo's/pet stores/anything that keeps an animal captive is disrespective toward its life.

 

[iwearnosox]

Maybe the cat was exposed to gamma rays and the eagle made cat angry?

 

[jjones]

I thought I read a story a while back about the current state of negligence at the National Zoo; something about there being an unusual number of animal deaths. If this is all part of the same, it is sad indeed.

Edit: I guess it helps if I were to read the article:

The death comes shortly before the start of an independent review, conducted at the request of Congress, into recent animal deaths at the zoo.

A bald eagle died last year after becoming infected with the West Nile virus. Two red pandas that ate rat poison died in January and two zebras starved to death in January 2000. There has been at least a dozen other deaths including a lion, orangutan and elephant.

 

[bigalt]

haha, bald eagles are wusses. i can't believe the they're some kind of symbol for the US. it makes no sense at all.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

mmmm...tastes like chicken

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: bigalt
haha, bald eagles are wusses. i can't believe the they're some kind of symbol for the US. it makes no sense at all.

um, you make no sense, and are a big wuss to boot.

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: drum

Originally posted by: Josh

Originally posted by: ElFenix
like a house cat or a zoo cat?

I believe a house cat. It just says "large cat", so I'm assuming it's a normal cat.

what? a house cat is a large cat? i haven't been to the zoo lately but i don't think they have a house cat display...

Have you ever seen a Maine my excellent compatriot (large breed of housecat)? Those cats get BIG, compared to your average housecat. I saw some of them at a cat show a few months ago, and they are built like brick sh!thouses....

Even so, a Bald Eagle would rip one apart.

And to whoever smarted off about how people should keep their cats in the house, even if this WAS a house cat (which I highly doubt), let's count up the number of times a domestic cat attacks/kills/injures a PERSON as opposed to, say, a loose dog.

 

[pulse8]

let's count up the number of times a domestic cat attacks/kills/injures a PERSON as opposed to, say, a loose dog

If you see a loose dog roaming around town, chances are it wasn't intentional.

People let their cats roam around outside all the time.

 

[jurzdevil]

TREASON!!!!

 

[brigden]

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: drum

Originally posted by: Josh

Originally posted by: ElFenix
like a house cat or a zoo cat?

I believe a house cat. It just says "large cat", so I'm assuming it's a normal cat.

what? a house cat is a large cat? i haven't been to the zoo lately but i don't think they have a house cat display...

Have you ever seen a Maine my excellent compatriot (large breed of housecat)? Those cats get BIG, compared to your average housecat. I saw some of them at a cat show a few months ago, and they are built like brick sh!thouses....

No, THIS is a big CAT.

 

[desertdweller]

Originally posted by: bigalt
haha, bald eagles are wusses. i can't believe the they're some kind of symbol for the US. it makes no sense at all.

The eagle didn't get eaten. That means that it sent
some large cat limping back to whatever cave it calls home.

Here's a little on Bobcats.

Bobcats

DD