Thursday 11 July 2013

This Girl Got More Than She Bargained For When She tried To Kiss A Lion

Savage: Fagen suffered 10 gash wounds once fellow students pulled her from the animals' grip. She is now recovering from 'huge rips' in her flesh

¿I didn¿t realize he could stick his paws through': Fagen thought she was safe behind the fence of the lion cage

A Canadian teen got a little too close for comfort to a lion she was helping care for in a South African rehabilitation facility when the beast tried to drag her into its cage by the legs.
Lauren Fagen, 18, was volunteering at the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre when she leaned in to kiss the beast's fur.
See pictures after the cut.


Worth it: Lauren Fagen plays with some lion cubs at Moholoholo Wildlife Centre in South Africa where she was later badly mauled. Before the attack, she wrote on Facebook that the hard work at the refuge was worth it
The Montreal girl was then pulled into the animal's cage, her legs gnawed and gashed by the lion and its mate, before she was finally dragged away by a lifesaving fellow volunteer.
it was the first attack at the 20-year-old center and, according to Moholoholo founder Brian Jones, things could have been much worse.
‘This is quite mild – it’s a miracle it wasn’t worse,’ he said. ‘She came here telling people that she wanted to hug an animal.’


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