We knew where it was because of its radio collar, and we treed it using hounds. We tranquilized it, and it stayed up in the tree, so our tree climber went up, put a rope around him and lowered him.

When we've to take a wild panther out of the wild because it was injured, they've really fought being caged and break their teeth trying to bite at the chain link. We want to make sure we put this one someplace that's not going to happen.

We feel we have an adequate deer population to support the panthers that are there now. But we are trying to determine if we're at the carrying capacity in Big Cypress.

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see radio and outdoor come up for sale, and Mel using some of his money to buy them again, if for no other reason than to show he can make it work.

They mostly hunt them with hounds around here.