I Wonder How This "Release" Worked Out? With Or Without A Tail..... 1972

'Sioux' is to be trained to hunt and then returned to the wilds.  Gary Bogue, curator of a Walnut Creek, Calif., museum feeds the 8 week old mountain lion club. The cub's mother bit off it's tail and is considered too poor a specimen for zoo display, so the captive born lion will be taught to hunt and kill and to be wary of humans and then released in the mountains.   But for now it's a house eat's life.............