Poor Walter Palmer – I bet he wished he’d stayed home in Minneapolis and left Cecil the Lion alone, because now he’s officially the Worst Person on Earth and there are grown humans outside his workplace dressed as animals.
As the Guardian reports:
Protesters placed animal toys outside Palmer’s River Duff dental practice in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis. The practice was forced to close as protesters staged a recreation of the hunt involving cuddly toys and water pistols.
Personally I don’t understand why anyone would want to shoot a lion, but there are lots of things people do which I can’t comprehend, but which I don’t really consider my business. Magnificent though lions appear, 100 million years of evolutionary separation has limited the extent to which I can really empathise with Cecil and its hopes and dreams, its loves and fears.
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