It’s been a rough couple of weeks on the animal welfare front. First a dentist from Minnesota shot a beloved lion (like a chunk of floss stuck between your teeth, he’s now in hiding and refusing to be rooted out). Then a gynecologist from Pittsburgh was accused of killing a lion back in April. Wildlife officials have noticed a downward pattern in the geographical location and area of specialty in these Killer Doctors. They are now keeping a close eye on all big-game hunting podiatrists in the Miami area.
Somebody really needs to tell these guys that the Hippocratic Oath has nothing to do with hunting hippos.
Fortunately, however, there’s something to cheer about regarding animals, thanks to a man in East Texas. This guy stepped out of his house and saw an armadillo in his back yard. So he got a pistol and fired three shots at it. But one of the bullets ricocheted off the armadillo’s hard shell and returned to strike him in the jaw. The guy was airlifted to a hospital and his jaw was wired shut. He isn’t commenting on the incident because he can’t.
This isn’t the first time an armadillo has won a duel and gone back into the woods to chuckle with his little buddies. In April of this year a guy in Georgia tried the same thing as Mr No Comment. The bullet glanced off the armadillo’s shell, hit a fence, rocketed through the backdoor of the house, and struck his mother-in-law in the back. Holiday gatherings in that household will never be the same.
