Zookeeper Diane contacted FIVEAA Breakfast on Wednesday to set the record straight:<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to clear up — there\u2019s a lot of people commenting saying he attacked me and that\u2019s not the case at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe actual situation is Cecil is extremely sick, he\u2019s been tube fed the last week\u2026 yesterday was another case where we were tube feeding. There were four of us there\u2026 as he went to get back up from tube feeding he accidentally rolled on his back and kicked out twice to get up and that\u2019s how I copped it in the face and the armpit\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people commenting that weren\u2019t there saying that he attacked me and that\u2019s not the case at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a beautiful hand raised bird. We\u2019ve been able do conscious x-rays, blood draws, everything from him and he hasn\u2019t done one thing to us. He drops at command, he\u2019s fully trained, and he\u2019s been hand raised since he was a little chick and he\u2019s truly a beautiful bird.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quite upsetting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got quite a nasty puncture wound to my forehead and under my armpit. They are quite nasty but that\u2019s not what I\u2019m so much upset about. I\u2019m upset about how the media have portrayed him and blown it out to be a nasty incident when it wasn\u2019t at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n