https://youtu.be/-FS6SYzEz9c

I assume that the poor dog died.

Was chilling to see how long it was within inches of its prey.

So much for man’s best Zzzzzzzzz…….


Combine this with Corbett's stories and the notion that a single leopard could strike terror in an entire village seems even more real.

Cat couldn't believe it was that easy, kept trying to figure out where the trap was.

Amazing that the dog had no idea!

I've heard of leopards taking dogs and children out of houses, but never seen it happen on camera. Small leopard, but really chilling how deliberate and cautious it was.

How interesting that priority was given to the installation of a night vision camera at the apartment entrance of a semi-constructed building with unprotected staircases instead of securing access points to prevent intrusion, as in putting the cart before the horse.

Unfortunately it wouldn't be the first nor the last dog to satisfy a Leopard's appetite either as man's best friend is high on the list of its food chain.

Hunting in Chete, Zimbabwe, we were staying in roundels that had open ends, and we left the door and windows open because of the extreme heat.

In the morning we see tracks of leopards passing inches from our door.

Sometimes I could not sleep because of the heat, and could see elephants feeding inside the camp 30 meters from my hut!

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Originally posted by fulvio:
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Unfortunately it wouldn't be the first nor the last dog to satisfy a Leopard's appetite either as man's best friend is high on the list of its food chain.

According to comments on the video the dog survived after the locals chased the leopard down and it escaped leaving the dog.

Was someone working the camera? I was moving in and around. I wonder if this was set up.

Amazing that the dog didn’t smell it.

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Originally posted by drongo:
Was someone working the camera? I was moving in and around. I wonder if this was set up.

Amazing that the dog didn’t smell it.

The video was playing on a computer and being recorded. Thus the movement.

This is in India. Its well known in India that leopards love to eat dogs and they used them regularly as live bait along with goats and donkeys in the old days.

Here is a true story from the old days. There was a well known hunter in Hyderabad and he had a wide thick leather collar made with nails sticking out of it and he had this huge dog, not sure what breed and for any leopard that was a bit willey he would use this dog as bait. It never failed the leopard would go for the neck get pricked jump back and look and he would shoot the leopard. Word got out about this amazing dog so a friend came around and begged him to lend him his dog as we was trying to shoot a leopard which was not going for any other baits! So on the day the usual scenario played out the leopard got poked by the collar jumped back looking at the dog. The hunter fired and killed the dog!!! I dont know what the owners reaction was. This is a true story.

In the 1950s there were so many leopard in Hyderabad state that anyone who hunted even occasionally shot a handful of them. Many of them with SG and LG from a shot gun or using Eley lethal ball.

Those who were more keen shot a lot more, my father 48, an uncle 34 and my grandfather 138!

Over here most people know of Jim Corbett and he has become a celebrity and larger figure after his death than he was in real life. He was a great story teller and did shoot those man eaters no doubt so he was the real deal. But in those days many English men living in India and the local hunters shot far more tigers, leopards and other stuff than he did. There are several books on hunting in India, sadly most of them are out of print now. The Maharaja of Surguja shot a 1000 tigers!

After years of no hunting, the leopard numbers have increased a lot in India and no week goes by without such a video doing the rounds. I have seen several.

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I had an uncle who in the late ‘40’s worked for the British Colonial Service as a District Veterinary Officer in what was then Tanganyika, now Tanzania.
His weapon of choice for leopard and lion was a 12 bore shotgun loaded with SG. His early forays with a Lee Enfield 303 with FMJ(all they had) were less than satisfactory.

I think the leopard was a little afraid of getting bit causing him to be extremely cautious, he couldn't come from behind. The spots/rosettes were bigger than normal for a leopard almost like a jaguar.

Seems like I remember reading in a Glen Corbett book that one of the maneating leopards that he was after had bitten a woman in the throat sleeping next to her husband and had dragged her off without him knowing it until the next morning when he awoke. I believe they were outside under some kind of cover.

Excuse me, it was Jim Corbett.