{"id":122657,"date":"2025-11-05T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122657\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:06:08","slug":"gardai-conclude-roaming-lion-spotted-in-clare-was-actually-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122657\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed conclude roaming \u2018lion\u2019 spotted in Clare was actually a dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns over a \u201clion\u201d roaming around Irish woodlands have been allayed by gardai, who have concluded the animal was actually a dog.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulated on social media sites and the WhatsApp messaging platform last week showed an animal that looked like a lion entering a wooded area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The sighting was reported to have occurred near Mountshannon, Co Clare \u2013 with some social media posts also linking the event to Kells, Co Meath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Tuesday, members of the gardai said that the sighting of a lion-like animal was a dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gardai from Killaloe concluded that the animal roaming around the woods was a Newfoundland breed, adding that the particular dog was named Mouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They said the dog was \u201cdelighted with his recent viral video clip\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mouse\u2019s fur appears to have been shaved down to leave a lengthy tuft on the tip of the tail, while also preserving the appearance of a mane around his head and neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concerns over a \u201clion\u201d roaming around Irish woodlands have been allayed by gardai, who have concluded the animal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,22826,4022],"class_list":["post-122657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lion","tag-place-republic-of-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}