The Netherlands has been gripped by the issue of a missing Puma for weeks now, I hear ...
This was from 15 June, just after the story broke (my translation):
Quote:Puma on the loose sighted again near Ede
EDE - The puma that's on the loose near Ede, which police, defence troops and hunt guards have been looking for the past 24 hours, has been sighted several times on Wednesday. So said a spokesperson for the police. [..]
The police does not want to divulge the exact place of the sightings to prevent that the public goes there en masse. Sightseeers wednesday massively ignored the police advice to stay away. The police was strongly bothered by the visitors. Because of that, large areas of the Ginkelse Heather were closed off on Wednesday morning with fences [..]
'We are simply tremendously bothered by sightseeers for two reasons. In the first place it is simply dangerous to now enter this area. When the puma encounters people, he will attack, according to experts. In the second place, there are hunters hidden everywhere, who have to decide in a fraction of a second whether to shoot when the animal comes into sight. [..]"
And this is from last Friday's Radio Netherlands Press Review:
Quote:PUMA HUNTING
While the Japanese hunt whales, the Dutch are out hunting a puma, a large beast of prey that somehow got out and is running free in one of our national parks. As anyone who reads the Dutch press knows, the hunt for the puma has turned into a national hype that has been building up for two weeks now.
According to today's Volkskrant, the 'puma', may in fact be a panther. But this revelation comes a bit late, because the Dutch public has already given its favourite cat a name: Winnie The Pooh-ma.
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