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To: canuck-l-head who wrote (1494)	10/7/2000 1:06:31 PM
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Boy, 6, returns home from cougar attack By Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONRAD, Mont. - A 6-year-old boy was released from a hospital Monday carrying some 200 stitches from a mountain lion attack over the weekend. State game warden Tom Flowers killed the lion about two hours after Saturday's attack when tracking dogs treed it only a quarter-mile away, Pondera County Sheriff Leon Simpson said. The carcass was taken to the Fish, Wildlife and Parks laboratory in Bozeman for rabies tests. "It was a young male, probably 2-3 years old," Flowers said Monday. "Typically those are the cats we have problems with, especially in regard to young children. They're looking for a new home ... and they're not as skilled at hunting as older, bigger cats." The lion attacked Joey Wing of Basin as he played with five other children near the Swift Dam Campground west of Depuyer, Simpson said. "He turned around ... and across from him he saw this lion. He started backing up and hollering, 'No! No!' " Simpson said. "He turned and started to run and it attacked him. It bit him on the back of the skull and his back. He had pretty good lacerations from his throat around his windpipe clear to his ear." Joey's parents, Jim and Melissa Wing, were among 50 to 60 adults at the campground for an annual horseback outing, and Mrs. Wing drove the cougar away from the boy. Two men discovered the cat only 15 feet away and crouched to spring at them. Kyle Sinclair, a Blackfeet tribal officer who was wearing his sidearm, fired several shots and wounded the cat, which fled. The bullet did not disable the cat, but may have caused enough pain that the lion remained in the area. Simpson, Flowers, two sheriff's deputies and Clint McAlpine of Valier tracked the lion with dogs and treed it about 10:30 p.m. Flowers killed it with a slug from a 12-gauge shotgun. A mountain lion mauled a 6-year-old Missoula boy, Dante Swallow, at a day camp outside Missoula on Friday. It attacked as he hiked a mountain trail with three dozen other children and counselors. A 16-year-old counselor drove it off. Two other lion encounters, also involving young children, occurred within the past two weeks near Missoula, but the cougars did not attack. idahonews.com