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Woman attacked by pet leopard From correspondents in Port Sulphur, Louisiana A US woman who had raised her pet leopard from a cub was mauled by the animal, but survived after a deputy shot the 45kg cat as its jaws were clamped on its owner's head, authorities said. Julie Miles, 33, was in fair condition today at Louisiana's West Jefferson Medical Centre in Gretna, spokeswoman Benola Cooper said. The leopard, named Jovani, let Miles go yesterday after a sheriff's deputy shot it twice, sheriff's spokesman Charles Guey said. The deputy shot the cat a third time after it crouched to attack again, but the animal was not killed until a relative of Miles arrived and killed it with a shotgun blast, Guey said. Miles had been petting Jovani and was just about to leave when the cat "got hold of her," her mother, Shirley Alesich, told the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune . The family said Jovani had always been gentle in the past and that Miles had all the permits she needed for the animal. The Associated Press |
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