Leopard Attacks Dog Defending Home, Runs Away With The Pet In Its Jaws [Watch]

A leopard was caught on a surveillance camera charging at a home that had a pet dog on guard at night. The wild predator had wandered into a residential area in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

A heart-stopping clip doing rounds on the internet shows the dog in a red collar resting on a low wall in the front yard of a house. The time stamp shows it was just past midnight as per the local time. Seconds into the video, the leopard comes running towards the home as the alert dog inches forward to take a closer look.

The brave dog tries to scare off the beast for a few seconds before the leopard pounces on it.

Indian news agency ANI shared the spine-chilling video on Twitter. According to the tweet's description, the incident took place on June 5 in the Mungsare village of Nashik, Maharashtra.

While it was not clear in the video if the dog could have been possibly killed, the clip shows the leopard running back in the same direction it came from, with the dog in its jaws. At the time of writing, the video had been viewed over 95,000 times on the social media platform.

Shocked internet users raised their concerns in response to the video, with one saying people shouldn't keep their pets outside their houses at night if leopard sightings are common in the area. "Why they kept their pet out of House," wrote one person.

One user speculated the pet may not have been a guard dog as it was preyed on by the leopard so easily. "Didn’t seem like a guard dog, if it would have been a Rottweiler or Belgian Mallinois the scene would have been different. Atleast it would have been a fair match," the person wrote. "You're overestimating the dogs here. It takes a pack of hunting dogs to kill one leopard," another person wrote in response to the previous comment.

The incident sent a shockwave among the residents of the village, with local forest authorities cautioning them to remain alert and indoors during nighttime.

"We appeal to the people of Mungsare village to remain indoors at night as leopard activity has increased in this area. People must remain alert," Pankaj Garg, Deputy Conservator of Forest, Nashik, told Hindusthan Times.