Newfoundland Dog “Mouse” Roams Irish Countryside – Viral Video
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“I said there’s no way we could believe that there’s a lion moving in an Irish wood. No way,” he told As it Happens host Nil Kӧksal.
But, on the other hand, he said: “It sure as hell looked like a lion.”
It turns out, it was not a lion, but rather a brown Newfoundland dog sporting a fresh lion haircut.
‘You’re not going to believe it’
The saga,O’Reilly says,began with some timber harvesters working for his forest management company in Ireland’s County Clare.
“Some of the guys working in the woods had started to pick up on the fact that there was a large animal moving around the wood,” he said. “They didn’t get a very good sight of the animal.”
Then, last week, one of their truck drivers captured the creature on camera.
The video footage wich has since gone viral, shows a large brown animal with a sleek body and a shaggy head, and a little tuft of fur on the tip of its tail, running into the darkness of the trees.
There are, of course, no known lions in the forests of Ireland. Nevertheless, O’Reilly couldn’t deny his own two eyes. He figured it must be someone’s exotic pet.
[Image: Three side-by-side vertical photos show a brown Newfoundland dog, its body shaved to resemble a male lion.]
An Garda Síochána, Ireland’s national police force, investigated reports of a lion roaming the countryside, and identified the culprit as a Newfoundland dog with an odd haircut. (An Garda Síochána Clare)
He decided he had no choice but to head over to the local police station.
“I said, ‘Guys you’re not going to believe it,'” O’reilly said, adding it was a real video from one of his workers and not AI-generated. “They were quite gobsmacked as well.”
Police reached out to their colleagues in the area the animal h
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