It turns out, the creature filmed slinking through the forest was not a lion, but rather a Newfoundland dog with a lion haircut.
When John O’Reilly first saw the footage of a large animal with a puffy tail and a mane skulking into the forest on the southwest coast of Ireland, he had two contradictory thoughts. “I said there's no way we could believe that there's a lion moving in an Irish wood. No way,” he told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. But, on the other hand, he said: “It sure as hell looked like a lion.” It turns out, it was not a lion, but rather a brown Newfoundland dog sporting a fresh lion haircut.
In fairness, 1) Newfoundland's are huge dogs, and 2) why on earth would you give it that haircut.
















