Chris Paulson was in his Burns Lake, B.C., Canada farm when he heard a commotion from his chicken coop.
He figured one of his chickens probably laid an egg because they always announced their egg’s arrival.
But something was different this time.
The cries were different, they sounded more urgent.
Chris decided he needed to go check on the chickens at that moment.
And he was glad he did because the chickens were in distress.
“They were all flying around, and I couldn’t see anything,” Chris told CTV News.
When he stuck his head inside, he saw the culprit.
A Canadian lynx.
And the lynx had already killed two of Chris’ chickens.
Normally, they had a German shepherd on the farm to scare off the other animals trying to break into the farm.
But at that moment, he was out on a walk with Chris’ daughters.
When the lynx saw there was no guard, it jumped at the opportunity to hunt the chickens.
Caught red-pawed
But the lynx probably didn’t count on Chris being there and saving the chickens from him.
“So I jump in there and try to shoo him out,” Chris recalled. “He was totally not aggressive towards me, but really focused on catching some more chickens.”
Eventually, the lynx was backed into a corner and Chris was able to scoop him up by grabbing it by its neck.
Now, you’d think that would be the end of it.
Chris would release the lynx into the woods so he can go back to calming the chickens down, right?
He didn’t.
Instead, Chris took out his phone and started to record.
He said it was a teaching moment for both the lynx and his daughters.
Pretty sure his daughters will understand the lesson but does the lynx even understand what he was saying?
The lynx was scowling and growling in his hand as Chris brought it back to the coop.
“Let’s go see the damage you did, buddy,” Paulson explained. “ Not good, is it? No. Let’s go have a look at this damage.”
Facing the scene of the crime
Chris turned the camera towards the coop and the first thing we see is the two chickens the lynx killed.
When he turned the camera to show the inside of the coop, all you could see were chicken feathers, overturned benches, and pure chaos.
The remaining chickens were all in a frenzy outside the coop and were even more scared when they saw the lynx again.
Done with the teaching moment, Chris decided to release the lynx somewhere safe.
He placed the lynx in a dog kennel and drove it somewhere away from his property.
Then, Chris got his own lecture.
Unfortunately, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service did not appreciate how Chris handled the situation, and Chris admitted to the mistake.
“It’s not something we’d advise the public to do, for a couple reasons,” Sgt. Ron LeBlanc of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service told CTV News. “One, you could get yourself hurt pretty bad. And second, it’s also illegal. We’re just glad this incident didn’t end in a different way because it certainly could have.”
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service advised Chris on what he should on the next time something like this happened again.
And Chris vowed he would secure his livestock better so this doesn’t happen again.
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