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WATCH: ‘It went grrr, my heart stopped’ – Student finds puma in school bathroom
Not your average school day: A puma was found in the bathroom of a Brazilian elementary school on 21 May 2022.
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A nine-year-old boy was amazed to discover a wildcat in the boy’s bathroom after soccer practice, local media in Brazil reported.
Thankfully, animal officials were able to safely relocate the puma to a nearby jungle without any injuries to humans or the cat.
The footage was initially shared by the Minas Gerais fire department and shows a growling puma seemingly unimpressed with the onlookers surrounding him.
David Miguel, aged nine, told local media he “trembled like jelly” when he came across the big cat.
“It went ‘grrr’ and my heart almost stopped,” he said of the ordeal.
Captura de uma onça parda de grande porte que estava dentro de um banheiro/vestiário de uma escola do ensino fundamental em #NovaLima.#bombeirosmg confinaram o animal em segurança no cômodo até a chegada da polícia ambiental e de um veterinário, que a sedou.
— Bombeiros_MG (@Bombeiros_MG) May 21, 2022
Ninguém se feriu. pic.twitter.com/bzNME1YkSY
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As reported by Globo, Miguel was playing football at the school on Saturday morning when he made the discovery.
No one was hurt, officials said. Fire officials confined the puma to the bathroom until the environmental police and a vet arrived to sedate it.
The puma was then sedated at the scene and released, unharmed, in a nearby forest.
No one was injured during the incident.
Wild cat saga in the US
In a separate incident, a large cat in Vancouver was mistaken for cougar as it roamed down Granville Street and 20th Avenue earlier this month.
Sgt. Steve Addison with the Vancouver Police Department said a nearby school was notified. However, it turned out to be an ordinary housecat.
“We believed this may have been a wild cat”, said Addison, adding, “but this was a house cat that was corralled and returned to [its] owner by our officers.”
The animal had a distinctive spotted coat, not unlike a savannah cat, but it is not considered an exotic or controlled alien species, the local conservation service said in a tweet.
Compiled by Tracy Lee Stark, additional reporting by Cheryl Kahla.
