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Cheerleader catching heat over big-game hunting

Texas Tech cheerleader Kendall Jones posted some photos to her Facebook page from her African hunting trip.

She knew she’d get some grief, but she never expected such an outcry over her trophies.

Facebook users started a petition, which already has well over 100,000 signatures, to have the pictures taken down because they apparently promote animal cruelty. Another petition aims to ban her from African states.

"I have actually had several death threats." Jones said via e-mail from Africa.

Jones recalled a trip to Zimbabwe when leopards were attacking herds of cattle and permits were sold to hunters to kill the big cats, rather than villagers just taking them out.

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