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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.

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 began as a dream. Fagen was all set to attend McGill University in the fall and wanted to indulge a lifelong passion for animals.

She travelled to the Limpopo province of South Africa to work with the animals at Moholoholo, a center established in 1991 for the rehabilitation of wild African animals like rhinos and honey badgers.

They give a home to injured and poisoned animals that can no longer live in the wild.

Fagen’s job was to clean cages. Only trained professionals are allowed to feed the lions.







But Fagen wasn’t feeding 5-year-old Duma, a male, when the attack occurred. She was leaning in to kiss its fur, reports the Canadian Globe and Mail.

‘I didn’t realize he could stick his paws through,’ Fagen said of the powerful feline.

The lion grabbed her and dragged her legs into the cage, where it began tearing at them

Its mate joined in, as well, by pouncing on the girl’s feet.

‘I should have died or lost a leg. It was a miracle that I survived,’ she said.

Fagen said the big cat was being ‘very, very friendly’ before the attack hinting she may have been lulled into a false sense of safety.

And she told ABC News via Skype from a Pretoria hospital that she still thinks the lion meant no real harm to her.

Hearing her screams, some fellow volunteers came running.

One of them, a veterinary nurse from Britain, managed to beat the the lion and lioness off of Fagen with a broom.

‘Both her knees were injured and she had puncture wounds in the calf and huge gouges out of her thigh,' said 24-year-old lifesaver Natalie Bennett.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360754/Canadian-teen-Lauren-Fagen-suffers-huge-rips-body-trying-KISS-lion.html
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Not surprised....canadian people get mumu for body.

Meant no real harm to her. Lol. This is mini-harm then

Makes for an episode of 'untamed and uncut'. She should thank her stars she's alive.

dominique: Makes for an episode of 'untamed and uncut'. She should thank her stars she's alive.

People are crazy.

what a movie!

All dis oyinbo people mumu sef.

Oyinbo too like kiss
Too much Disney movies or haven't you watched beauty and the beast?? Am sure she felt her kiss would turn the lion into a prince

Lol South African Lion.

Kiss the lion's fur for what....mtscheew

IS DEVIL INVOLVED?

Reminds me of the guy that got mauled by a panda at a chinese zoo. He said it looked so cute that he just had to hug it. Thankfully zoo-keepers rushed in and saved his life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7743748.stm

Is she a learner?

Hmmmmmmmmmm...

STAY AWAY FROM THE FENCE. THEY BITE.- That sign is there for a reason.

what comes to my mind when I see a lion is leather shoe,belt and bag.... Kiss ko fvcq ni

Wait, so LIMPOPO is a place?

Soooo, why does that guy say "oya limpopo", I am getting closer to unravelling these mysteries.

All dis oyibo pple like world record....na world record she dey find so o....SMH

nosike3: what comes to my mind when I see a lion is leather shoe,belt and bag.... Kiss ko fvcq ni

I need to report you to PETA.

Oyibo and their wahala how many south Africans she see there soon them go wan share food with lion Mk we see who go be food

Oyinbo no 2 get brain

white people....

See am?

Kissing a Lion!

Yet the same girl would front when her boyfriend wants a Bl0wJ0b

She must have thought the lion was friendly Mufasa from the cartoons...

Lion wey dey H

dridowu: Oyinbo no 2 get brain

Reason they were well ahead of you in Development..

And i jst told 1 annoying chick make she go hug lion.hope she dosent také it crious o

E be lyk say D oyimbo girl get cow spirit 4 bdy...

Yoshi-Master:
Wait, so LIMPOPO is a place?

Soooo, why does that guy say "oya limpopo", I am getting closer to unravelling these mysteries.

*in Kcee's voice*
Oya limpopo
Baby make we go limpopo...

Dis oyinbo ppl sef, i tire 4 dem. Or, maybe, just may be, she was an antelope in her former life..

How is this on the front page? So she didnt know that? Maybe she should have drunk poison to see if it could kill her.maybe jumping onto the expressway to see if she could be run over by a car/truck.