Greetings, once again.
Today was a very normal day, I caught a small hare not too far from our cave at dawn. The cubs can see quite well now and are a little more active. Its good that they're learning to play with each other; it gives me more time to hunt. I slept the rest of the day.
The action began at dusk. The cubs were still asleep and I was at the entrance of the cave, keeping watch. All of a sudden, I heard a leopard's painful wailing. Immediately, I took a few steps forward and stood on the edge of a nearby rock. Further down, about a mile away, there were two men with sharp objects and nets. I couldn't clearly make out what exactly was going on, but I bet the leopard was putting up a fight. Those men were attacking him! I know that us leopards would never put up a fight unless we were being attacked!
The fight was short. I heard a final yelp followed by silence. The men dragged the leopard away to the clearing at the lower part of the mountains. The clearing was where a large group of those men lived. I never want to go there.
Here's a picture of what happened after the men caught the leopard.
That has been the second attack I've seen these past few days. I'm afraid the men will learn how to climb up to the higher rocks where I live and attack me and the cubs. We could move to another part of my territory, but the cubs are too young to travel long distances. My mother only made me and my sister move when we were about a month old. If my cubs were older, we could easily be able to travel about 15 miles in a night.
What do I do? Should I stay and protect my cubs if a man attacks me? The men are too strong. Should I move to another cave? The cubs are too young to endure the journey? I'm in a dilemma here. I need help. Hmmm, maybe we could travel short distances at a time. We snow leopards don't usually do that, but desperate times call for desperate measures. It's final, we start our journey tomorrow night. In the meantime, I could scout ahead just for a few metres and look for a new cave. This is for the best, but it's not going to be easy.
Wish me luck.
Farewell, Tara.
