The viral alleged \u201clion\u201d filmed running in a forested area in Ireland has been apprehended by Garda\u00ed in Co. Clare.<\/p>\n
Last week, a video began circulating on social media purporting to show a creature that looked like a lion running through an Irish forest. It was filmed from a truck.<\/p>\n
At the time, Garda\u00ed said they were investigating the reports.<\/p>\n
Following an investigation, Garda\u00ed in East Co. Clare discovered the source of the sighting of a \u201clion-like animal\u201d, which was in fact a dog.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you go down to the woods today\u2026its not a lion you will find, but the very friendly Newfoundland dog named Mouse,\u201d the local Garda\u00ed said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarda\u00ed from Killaloe have concluded that the recent video of a lion like animal roaming around the woods in East Clare is in fact the very friendly Mouse, a Newfoundland dog who is delighted with his recent viral video clip.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reports indicate that the sighting took place in the vicinity of Mountshannon in County Clare, although several social media posts have tied the incident to Kells in County Meath.<\/p>\n
Social media users mostly reacted with levity to the revelation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThankfully he is safe and no hunting fool went on a scouting expedition for the first \u2018wild lion\u2019 in Ireland!\u201d said one person.<\/p>\n
Others said he was \u201cgorgeous\u201d, a \u201cbeauty of a dog\u201d, and praised the Garda\u00ed for getting him safe and sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The viral alleged \u201clion\u201d filmed running in a forested area in Ireland has been apprehended by Garda\u00ed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[78986,13182,102481,18989,102482,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-244373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ben-scallan","tag-clare","tag-kells","tag-lion","tag-meath","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}