Large Cat Haven: Intern Death Is 'Devastating'
The founder of the Cat Haven in California where a 24-year-old intern was mauled to death by a lion earlier this week says the incident is devastating. (March 7)
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Lion attacks: Kills a woman at a sanctuary in California 6 March 2013
One person has been killed in a lion attack at a wild cat sanctuary in Fresno County, according to reports.
The Fresno County Sheriff's Department and Cal Fire confirmed to The Times they had responded to an animal attack at Project Survival's Cat Haven in Dunlap, where Fresno television stations are reporting a worker was killed.
The circumstances of the attack were not immediately known. Calls to Project Survival's Cat Haven were not immediately returned, but about a half-dozen people had already posted condolences on the group's Facebook page.
According to the organization's website, Cat Haven was founded in 1993 and sits on 100 acres about 15 miles west of King's Canyon National Park and 40 miles east of Fresno. It describes itself as an innovative park dedicated to the preservation of wild cats.
Project Survival's Cat Haven promotes the conservation and preservation of wild cats in their native habitat by educating visitors and publicizing the work done by Project Survival Cat Conservation Group, its website states.
Father of Intern KILLED by Lion Had 'Premonition' of ATTACK
Father of Intern KILLED by Lion Had 'Premonition' of ATTACK Father of Intern KILLED by Lion Had 'Premonition' of ATTACK Father of Intern KILLED by Lion Had 'Premonition' of ATTACK
The father of the intern, who was killed by a lion at a big cat sanctuary in Dunlap, Calif., Wednesday, said his daughter never feared working with big cats, but he always feared something might happen to her.
The victim was identified as 24-year-old Dianna Hanson, who was two months into her internship program at the Cat Haven in Dunlap, a small town in Fresno County near King's Canyon National Park.
Anybody who works with cats knows that they are wild animals and they can turn even on people closest to them. So I always had this horrible, nagging premonition that I would get a call like this, Hanson's father, Paul, told ABC News overnight by phone from his home in Washington state.
Hanson said his daughter loved to be around big cats and working with them was her true passion in life.
Dianna Hanson was inside the cat enclosure when a 4-year-old male African lion named Cous Cous attacked her around 12:30 p.m., officials said. It was not immediately clear what Hanson was doing inside the closure, or what prompted the attack.
Another employee had tried unsuccessfully to lure Cous Cous away from Hanson and into another enclosure. Less than 30 minutes after Hanson entered the cage, Cous Cous was shot by a Fresno County sheriff's deputy who responded to a call, authorities said.
The lion was shot and killed per our safety protocols, Dale Anderson, founder and executive director of Project Survival Cat Haven, which manages Cat Haven, said Wednesday.
The park was closed at the time of the attack.
Hanson's grief-stricken father is now left with the question of why his daughter was in the enclosure with the lion. How she ever got inside the cage and why she would be inside the cage, because I thought she made it real clear that they don't let anybody in the cage except the owner, Paul Hanson said.
In a statement on Facebook, Hanson reflected on his daughter's time working at the sanctuary.
Once there, she gave me the tour and showed me all the big cats there with which she would be working. Of course, Dianna being Dianna, her favorites were the tiger and the lion ... who killed her today, he said.
Dianna Hanson trained with three tigers and a lion while in college at Western Washington State University. She also traveled to Africa to work with large cats, Paul Hanson said.
Di, we will always love you. And we will miss you so much. But I know that you will be happy. For now, you truly are in the eternal 'Cat Haven,' Paul Hanson said in the statement.
The sanctuary will remain closed to the public today, and state wildlife officials will perform a necropsy on Cous Cous, trying to determine what may have caused the fatal attack.
Cous Cous had been raised at the preserve since he was 8 weeks old, and even made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show when he was a cub.
Cat Haven was founded in 1993 and is run by Project Survival, a privately funded education and conservation organization.
The 100-acre facility is home to a variety of wild cats -- including tigers, leopards and other threatened and endangered species that are kept for limited breeding and use in educational programs, according to Cat Haven's website.
Officials said the park has had a good history, and had an active permit to operate.
Cat Haven also runs an outreach program, and its cat ambassadors may sometimes be taken off-site to make appearances as part of that program, according to the website.
Deadly Lion Attack Occurred After Animal Escaped Cage
Dunlap, California (CNN) -- Even if his daughter was fearless, Paul Hanson was not. He supported Dianna's lifelong love of big cats, as well as her single-minded mission to work with them. Yet despite her assurances, he worried.
His nightmare came true Wednesday, when a 350-pound African lion killed Dianna Hanson at Project Survival's Cat Haven in Dunlap, California, where she was working as an intern.
I always had a premonition that someday I would get a call like this, her father said Thursday. But I just thought it would be much further in the future than 24.
That's how old the Seattle native was when the lion opened the gate of a pen at the big cat sanctuary, then moved into a larger enclosure, according to the local coroner.
Dianna Hanson was cleaning the enclosure the two lions had been in not long before, Fresno County coroner Dr. David Hadden said, citing investigators. Somehow, one of those animals -- a 5-year-old lion named Cous Cous -- escaped and attacked her.
(Hanson) died very quickly and did not suffer, Hadden said.
A preliminary autopsy showed Hanson died of a broken neck and other neck injuries, according to the coroner. The animal inflicted other injuries post-mortem.
Paul Hanson,told CNN's Erin Burnett he had been told that his daughter wasn't mauled, saying she had no blood, no rips or gashes.
He and his family are grieving, taking comfort in the fact that Dianna Hanson died doing what she loved -- taking care of big cats such as Cous Cous. Looking back at photos Dianna had posted on Facebook over the past two months, when she'd begun working at the expansive northern California facility, Paul Hanson said he and his wife agreed that this was the happiest they'd ever seen her.
And that's the only way I can bear this, he said. Because this was her dream. She was living her dream.
Death devastates those at big cat sanctuary
When she was 6 or 7, Dianna Hanson was convinced she'd someday go to Siberia to study Siberian snow tigers. Her obsession with them and, eventually, other big cats never left her, according to her father.
Her first hands-on experience with such animals came while a student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, where she helped take care of lions and tigers owned by a family there.
The six-month internship at Cat Haven was her big break -- her ticket, she hoped, to getting a full-time job at a zoo. Paul Hanson said that his daughter was impressed with everything about what she considered a very safe, well-run place where the animals got far more room to roam than at most zoos.
She was just really impressed with the way it was laid out and organized, he said. There was never any question of safety in her mind or any mismanagement.
Cat Haven's founder, Dale Anderson, said the facility has been incident-free since it opened in 1998.
And Dianna Hanson quickly became part of the family, lightening the load and brightening the mood wherever she went, recalled the non-profit's president, Wendy Debbas. She gave the animals songs -- for a jaguar named Samba it was La Samba, to the tune of La Bamba, while another named Rose had Kissed by a Rose.
She made instant friendships with everybody up here, Debbas said. Everybody loved her.
They don't -- at least now, at least publicly -- have an explanation as to what happened to her.
The Fresno County Sheriff's Office said that when the lion attacked, another employee at the sanctuary tried to distract him away from Hanson and move him into another enclosure.
But all attempts failed, the office said.
A sheriff's deputy shot and killed the animal to reach Hanson and give her medical assistance. However, it was too late.
Our whole staff is ... it's just, it's devastating, Anderson said Thursday, choking back tears.
'They are wild animals, end of story'
The autopsy finding on Hanson will be reviewed by a veterinarian at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which is conducting the necropsy on the lion.
Fish and Wildlife has trained our officers in California to recognize a lion kill due to our abundance of mountain lions, Hadden said, noting that the coordination between the two camps follows a protocol set up in case of a mountain lion attack.
We never in our wildest imagination thought it would be an African lion.
Fatal lion maulings are rare in the United States, though not unprecedented.
Twenty people, including five children, have been killed by big cats in the United States in the past 21 years, according to figures kept by Big Cat Rescue, a nonprofit cat sanctuary in Tampa, Florida.
Another 246 people were mauled in the United States during that same time period, 1990 to 2011, the group said.
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FATAL LION ATTACK KILLS a woman in California Frensco County
One person has been killed in a lion attack at a wild cat sanctuary in Fresno County, according to reports.
The Fresno County Sheriff's Department and Cal Fire confirmed to The Times they had responded to an animal attack at Project Survival's Cat Haven in Dunlap, where Fresno television stations are reporting a worker was killed.
The circumstances of the attack were not immediately known. Calls to Project Survival's Cat Haven were not immediately returned, but about a half-dozen people had already posted condolences on the group's Facebook page.
According to the organization's website, Cat Haven was founded in 1993 and sits on 100 acres about 15 miles west of King's Canyon National Park and 40 miles east of Fresno. It describes itself as an innovative park dedicated to the preservation of wild cats.
Project Survival's Cat Haven promotes the conservation and preservation of wild cats in their native habitat by educating visitors and publicizing the work done by Project Survival Cat Conservation Group, its website states.
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