{"id":274126,"date":"2025-11-06T01:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274126\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:05:07","slug":"look-lion-on-the-loose-in-ireland-was-a-big-dog-with-a-fresh-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274126\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: &#8216;Lion&#8217; on the loose in Ireland was a big dog &#8216;with a fresh haircut&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 5 (UPI) &#8212; Police in Ireland investigating a viral video of a &#8220;lion&#8221; on the loose in the woods of eastern County Clare discovered the animal was in fact a Newfoundland dog &#8220;with a fresh haircut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed stationed in Killaloe opened an investigation after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/police-called-after-lion-spotted-36190873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a video captured<\/a> by a truck driver showed what appeared to be an African lion wandering in the woods.\n<\/p>\n<p>John O&#8217;Reilly, the local forst manager, said the video came after several reported sightings of an unknown animal in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The animal had been seen before by harvesters working on the site, but it was from a distance, moving through the trees. We assumed it was a deer before the video was captured,&#8221; O&#8217;Reilly<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/news\/local-news\/gardai-say-co-clares-escaped-32809811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> told CorkBeo.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQo_dtuDaUm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=3071f1ff-0ce9-4167-8439-61ed891ae13c&amp;img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a> Tuesday that the animal had been found and identified.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turns out it was just a very committed Newfoundland dog with a fresh haircut,&#8221; police wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed officials wrote the &#8220;very friendly&#8221; dog is named Mouse and &#8220;is delighted with his recent viral video clip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 5 (UPI) &#8212; Police in Ireland investigating a viral video of a &#8220;lion&#8221; on the loose in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-274126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-weird","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}