What animal not to shoot, or you may end up dead

The unfortunate death of Cecil the lion in the hand of an American dentist has people wishing its killer got what’s coming to him. The lion-killer dentist also got death threats and serious abuses. If the doctor had shot at an armadillo instead of a lion, he might have landed in the news for a different reason, and not hated as much.

Another animal shooter, a Texas man, was shot by his own bullet when he fired at an armadillo. Early Thursday, the Texan went outside his house with a revolver to shoot at the animal and one of his bullets ricocheted and struck him in the jaw. Armadillo is an animal with body encased in natural Armour like skin, and it’s obvious the shooter didn’t put that into consideration before he went hunting in his front yard.

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“His wife was in the house. He went outside and took his .38 revolver and shot three times at the armadillo,” the Cass county Sheriff, Larry Rowe, told Reuters.

“The man was airlifted to the hospital. His jaw was wired shut,” he said, adding that they didn’t know what happened to the animal. “We didn’t find the armadillo.” Rowe said.

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