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“The tracking team on foot saw very fresh paw prints around the waterhole. They also smelled her, so she was very close but the bush was too thick and too risky for them to enter,” he said.
Instead, the tracking team is using a baiting method with tranquillisers in a carcass to “get her to eat it and make her drowsy so the team can move in and capture her”, said Mandy.
Since her escape, Sheba has killed at least two dogs, a pig and injured a 39-year-old man.
While they wait for the cat to be located, Phiri said they were concerned for their safety: “We are worried, we can’t work comfortably and kids can’t go to school. Maybe if someone can catch it and shoot it, we could be free and work freely.”
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