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When a stray dog got stuck into a bathroom with a leopard for nearly 7 hours, nobody thought the pup would make it out alive.
the dog called Bollu, locals say. was being pursued by a leopard in Karnataka, India.
when the pup saw a house and hid within the bathroom. The leopard goes after the dog inside when the homeowner spotted the leopard and slammed the door shut.
This photo was taken from outside through a gap in the window. It is a leopard and a dog stuck together since this morning inside the toilet of a house in Kadaba, Dakshina Kannada district. I am told the leopard escaped at 2 pm and the dog is alive! pic.twitter.com/hgjJhaXW03
— Prajwal (@prajwalmanipal) February 3, 2021
When the forestry department arrived hours later, they removed sheeting from the toilet roof and stuck a camera inside to ascertain what was happening.
it took several tries but, eventually, the forestry officials managed to free the leopard, who ran back to the encompassing wilderness.
Sharing a video I received from the spot. After the leopard and dog were spotted inside the toilet in the morning, curious passers-by joined forest department officials to figure out how to catch the leopard and release it to the forest. pic.twitter.com/9dLzlxTUOO
— Prajwal (@prajwalmanipal) February 3, 2021
Dear Bollu was rescued from the toilet without a scratch on him — and he was clearly grateful to be free.
who is now posing for photos. pic.twitter.com/LKy0s4viNx
— Prajwal (@prajwalmanipal) February 3, 2021
While nobody is certain how the leopard and therefore the dog managed to coexist peacefully for therefore long, the dog’s hiding-place may have figured out better than he’d even planned.
“Numerous are wondering why the leopard didn’t attack the dog,” journalist Prajwal Manipal wrote on Twitter.
“Sri H PRaghavendra, a forest ranger in Subramanya, says leopard’s nature is to attack in stealth but here, it should have been wary of the dog defending itself and also the lack of a transparent escape route.” Or, maybe, every dog has his day.
