Nobody expected a stray dog to make it out alive after being trapped in a restroom with a leopard for over seven hours.
In Karnataka, India, a dog named Bollu was being hunted by a leopard when the pup rushed inside a house and hid in the toilet. When the homeowner noticed the leopard and slammed the door shut, the leopard followed the dog inside.
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
After arriving hours later, the forestry department removed sheets from the bathroom roof and installed a camera inside to see what was going on.
They were taken aback when they saw the leopard and the dog sitting side by side in the little chamber, as if they had reached an agreement.
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
It took several tries but, eventually, the forestry officials managed to free the leopard, who ran back into the surrounding wilderness.
Bollu was rescued from the bathroom 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 no one knows how the leopard and the dog were able to cohabit together for so long, the dog’s hiding spot may have worked out even better than he had hoped.
On Twitter, journalist Prajwal Manipal tweeted, “Many are questioning why the leopard did not attack the dog.” “Leopards like to strike in stealth,” explains Raghavendra, a forest officer in Subramanya, “but here, it may have been afraid of the dog defending itself and the absence of a clear escape path.”
Or, perhaps, every dog has a bad day.
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