The whole idea of God using animals to punish the wicked is preposterous, just ask Elisha; "He went up from there to
Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods ...