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Definitely better than any headlines I came up with this week. Apparently leopards in Israel frequently prey on house pets when they get weak or sick and can no longer run down wild prey. Or if they’re just feeling a bit lazy. From the Washington Post:

“JERUSALEM — A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.

‘This kind of thing doesn’t happen every day,’ said 49-year-old Arthur Du Mosch, a nature guide. ‘I don’t know why I did it. I wasn’t thinking, I just acted.’

Raviv Shapira, who heads the southern district of the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority, said a half-dozen of the leopards have been spotted near the small community of Sde Boker in the Negev desert in southern Israel, ‘but we have never heard of a leopard coming into a private home,’ he said. He said it was food, not curiosity, that lured the cat.”

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