Nine-year-old boy given huge shock after bumping into PUMA in school toilet

[Judi Lynn]

David Miguel says his heart nearly stopped after coming face-to-face with the growling creature after nipping to the loo



The wild puma was rescued from a school in Brazil (Image: CEN)

By Dominic Picksley
05:53, 24 May 2022 UPDATED 06:44, 24 May 2022

A young Brazilian boy had the shock of his life following an impromptu loo break during a school football match, when he encountered a wild puma in the toilet cubicle.

Nine-year-old David Miguel admitted that “my heart almost stopped” when he pushed open the receptacle door to find a hissing and growling puma the other side, immediately rushing outside to tell his father.

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The school contacted the local fire department and the military environmental police, who hurried to the scene, where they managed to quell the animal with a tranquilliser dart, before releasing the young female back into the wild.

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Vet Marcos Mourao, who helped with the release of the beast, explained that deforestation is causing an increase in wild animals approaching urban areas.

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[Skittles]

1. very scary

but impressive the way it was handled

[wnylib]

2. Impressive that the kid survived running away from

the cat without being chased by it.

[japple]

3. I can just see the Faux headlines: "Cougar, looking for love, approaches young boy in

school bathroom!"

[Best_man23]

4. Have to admire that young man's cool head

And the forethought of the school to contact the right organizations to tranquilize and relocate that big cat. If a similar thing happened in a school in this country, police would have been called and magazines would have been emptied into that Puma.