"I just saw an animal that looked like a small lion, " a man said.

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"If my daughter is sick or I have to pay school fees and this animal comes to our beach, then I have to catch it and kill it because people like the meat, " argues Ashietey, who says he has done precisely that on two occasions.

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As skilled as the large-animal vets were, I'd learned, nobody could read a donkey better than a farrier like Ken.

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