{"id":355871,"date":"2025-11-04T21:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355871\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:10:11","slug":"viral-lion-apprehended-by-gardai-in-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355871\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral &#8220;lion&#8221; apprehended by Garda\u00ed in Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The viral alleged \u201clion\u201d filmed running in a forested area in Ireland has been apprehended by Garda\u00ed in Co. Clare.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p>At the time, Garda\u00ed said they were investigating the reports.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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<p>\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<p>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<p>Social media users mostly reacted with levity to the revelation.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":355872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[173639,101194,173640,68783,173641,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-355871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ben-scallan","9":"tag-clare","10":"tag-kells","11":"tag-lion","12":"tag-meath","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}