In reality, you must not only protect your property from burglars but also from wild animal intruders.
That’s exactly what happened to a Burns Lake, B.C. farm owner named Chris Paulson.
One Sunday, he heard some kind of scuffle going on inside his chicken coop. At first, he just thought that the noise was maybe because one of his chickens had laid an egg.
However, the commotion sounded a little urgent, so he went ahead and checked it himself.
“They were all flying around, and I couldn’t see anything,” he said in a phone interview with CTV News.
Out of curiosity, Paulson stuck his head inside the chicken coop and he was surprised by what he saw.
It has black, tufted ear tips, massive paws, thick grey fur, and a fearsome carnivore – a Canada lynx.
Assuming that nobody was around, the huge carnivore took it as an opportunity to gobble in on some chicken.
The Canada lynx or Canadian lynx is a medium-sized North American lynx that’s endemic to Alaska, Canada, and northern areas of the contiguous United States.
For those who are not familiar with this predator, you wouldn’t want to mess with them on their hunt.
“So I jump in there and try to shoo him out,” shared Paulson. “He was totally not aggressive towards me, but really focussed on catching some more chickens.”
He had the lynx backed into a corner, however, it decided not to leave. Just like what a cautious person would do, Paulson grabbed the lynx by the scruff of its neck and “kicked” it out of the chicken coop.
“Just like a mother cat would,” he said.
But what he did next was actually unexpected and the online community loved it.
Paulson brought his phone out and started recording.
Having both him and the lynx in the frame, Paulson started filming to show it later on to his two daughters.
He took it as an opportunity to lecture the bad lynx for what it did to his chickens.
To do that, he brought the lynx back to the coop while telling the predator the immense amount of damage that it’s done.
Paulson was like a father scolding his own kid, only that time, it was a growling animal.
The blood stain and chicken feathers were still present around the lynx’s mouth, literally fresh evidence from the crime scene.
“Let’s go see the damage you did, buddy. Not good, is it? No,” Paulson said. “See how upset you made everyone? That’s two of our new chickens,”
Off you go.
Shortly after, Paulson realized that he needed to set the animal free. The next thing he did was put the lynx in a dog kennel and drove it off of his property, then released it.
It’s a decision he immediately regretted.
“In hindsight, what we did was wrong,” he exclaimed. “We shouldn’t have relocated him.”
What he could’ve done was by doing nothing at all, that’s according to Sgt. Ron LeBlanc of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service.
“It’s not something we’d advise the public to do, for a couple reasons,” he said in a phone interview with CTV News. “One, you could get yourself hurt pretty bad. And second, it’s also illegal.”
Although Canadian lynx are not known to be aggressive toward humans, in fact, they’d actually avoid interactions with humans.
“We’re just glad this incident didn’t end in a different way,” LeBlanc said. “Because it certainly could have.”
Watch the video below to see how Paulson lectured the lynx like it’s his own son.
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