The Texas cheerleader criticized for posing with endangered species she hunted in Africa on Facebook is now showing her softer side.
Kendall Jones, a cheerleader for Texas Tech, posted photos of herself this week posing with a dog and a baby deer in an effort to show her love for animals.
The college sophomore was the target of widespread criticism and a Facebook petition after she posted photos of herself posing with lions and cheetahs that she had killed while on big game hunting trips in Africa.
Cheerleader Fights Back Against Critics of Her Big Game Hunting
“I hope a lion eats you,” Zane Blackwell wrote on her Facebook wall.
“You are a piece of garbage,” Jackie Yaeger wrote.
Jones defended herself on her Facebook page by saying that she hunted the animals on safaris in Africa that, due to their high cost, actually help fund conservation efforts and protect the animals from poaching.
She declined comment to ABC News.
Today, she posted images of herself with a baby deer and yesterday posted one of herself with her chihuaha, Nemo, which she says is one of 40 dogs she’s rescued.
“Out driving around the ranch today in the Ranger and look who we bumped into! Coyote was within 30 yards but we ran him off. Guess he wanted to celebrate #WhitetailWednesday too!!! #SupportKendall #HuntersCareToo,” she wrote today on a post that included an image of Jones with a baby deer.
Jones says on her page that she has been hunting since she was a child with her father and first hunted in Africa in 2008 at age 13, where she shot a white rhino. She describes shooting an elephant, a buffalo, a lion, a leopard, and a hippo on subsequent African hunts.
Exposing the Big Game 
She’s seriously screwed up and has a hideous heart. Poor thing. So hated, so dimwitted, so empty, so beyond redemption. I pity the deer she’s clutching, and I pity the chihuahua with the misplaced trust.
Is she a hypocrite? Yes!
Love one – Kill another – can’t get my head around that !
She seems all messed up in head!! “make up your mind women”
And is she holding this baby or strangling it??? LEAVE THE BABY NOW!!!
Too little Too late…that ship has sailed .. Now she just looks pathetic. My first thought, did she already kill the mother deer?
@ Jannette – she’s waiting for that baby to grow up so she can blast it with one of her fancy hunting rifles. 😐
Killing = Conservation? Srsly?
Obvious PR stunt is obvious.
Yep
Sadly (and ironically), she’s already killed the fawn by kidnapping it.
I only wish society had equal contempt for her male counterparts. Killing for fun needs to be shamed, and banned.
She’s strangling the fawn with her ugly claws, clenching her teeth in her big mouth as if she chomping at the bit for a kill, eyes full of excitement at the prospect of a future kill when this fawn is older. Hypocrite. She’s despicable.
That poor little fawn looks like he can’t wait to jump out of her clutches. Isn’t this chick’s 15 minutes of fame done yet?
I hope one of your prey actually attacks you. you should be in jail locked up doing jail time. You just want attention and fame doing this outrage and atrocity to innocent animals trying to already survive in an over
developed world taking away their natural habitat. Shame on you, their is a saying in life: what goes around, comes around. The only fame you will receive is how many thousands of people actually dislike and hate you immensely. I think you are an ego-centric heartless bitch.