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HAWKE'S BAY, N.L. (CP) - Bears roaming the woods of Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula have met their match in Cecilia Smith, an 87-year-old grandmother with a quick shot.  
For the second time in less than a month, Smith found herself eye-to-eye with a black bear outside her cabin Saturday in the rural community of Hawke's Bay, N.L. The 140-kilogram bear was trapped in a snare Smith had set three weeks after she shot another black bear dead prowling outside her cabin.  
She then grabbed her gun, shot it and later took it to a nearby dump.  
This comes three weeks after Smith, who holds a license to hunt bears, shot a 200-kilogram black bear dead on June 19.  
She laughs off suggestions she narrowly escaped two vicious bear attacks within the span of three weeks, saying she's just having a little fun.  
I thought that using Snares was considered extreme cruelty, and therefore illegal. I think she should be charged with cruelty to animals and her Guns, Traps and Hunting License should be taken from her possession. It does not say in the above article, but I bet she bates the Traps. What a waste of a beautiful animal, only to be taken and dumped in the local Garbage Dump.