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Woman mauled, killed by 350-pound pet black bear

Posted by Kari O'Rourke on 10/05/09 • Categorized as North America

On Sunday, Kelly Ann Walz, 37, was pronounced dead on the scene after she was attacked upon entering the bear’s cage to clean it. The bear lived in a 15-by-15-foot steel and concrete enclosure on Walz’s property in Ross Township, reports CNN.

Walz’s children were onsite and called for help as they watched their mother being mauled. A neighbor shot the bear while it was atop Walz.

The victim’s husband, Michael Walz, is an exotic pet dealer who was operating with an expired license dating back to June 2008.

According to FOX News, authorities said that Michael Walz reported back in 2007 that he kept a lion, cougar, jaguar, tiger, black bear, leopard and two servals on the property in Ross Township, a rural area in the Pocono Mountains, about 20 miles northeast of Allentown.

Although tragic, Twitterers could not help by speak out:

  1. Adrenaline PR
    AdrenalinePR (Freehold, N.J.)  http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/05/bear.attack/index.html MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE YOU KEPT A PET BEAR IN YOUR BACKYARD. 05 Oct 2009 from web
  2. Jack Bergstrom
    Jackstowne (Seattle) There’s no such thing as a “pet” bear. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/05/bear.attack/index.html Poor bear. 05 Oct 2009 from web
  3. Denice Bruce
    denny111 (Wichita, Kan.) First a pet chimp attack, now a pet bear mauling. I smell an Oprah special. 05 Oct 2009 from TweetDeck
  4. victoria
    vawilliams007  (Las Vegas) This is why we stick to cats & dogs as pets http://cbs3.com/local/black.bear.attack.2.1228025.html 05 Oct 2009 from web
  5. Esteban Valdez
    sinnombre (Undisclosed) This is why i approve of Natural Selection. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/05/bear.attack/index.html Why… Why does she have a pet bear? 05 Oct 2009 from web
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