In his underwear. For 20 minutes. In Israel. Just jumped into bed with him. Seems like there should be more to this story....

Perhaps, a menage ea claw?

Israeli Man Wrestles Stray Leopard in Bedroom
Monday, May 28, 2007

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JERUSALEM — A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.

"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," said 49-year-old Arthur Du Mosch, a nature guide. "I don't know why I did it. I wasn't thinking, I just acted."

Raviv Shapira, who heads the southern district of the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority, said a half dozen leopards have been spotted recently near Du Mosch's small community of Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev desert in southern Israel, although they rarely threaten humans.

Shapira said it was probably food that lured the big cat. Leopards living near humans are usually too old to hunt in the wild and resort to chasing down domestic dogs and cats for food, he added.

Du Mosch's cat was in the bed with him at the time, along with his young daughter who had been frightened by a mosquito in her own room.

Shapira said the leopard was very weak when park rangers arrived at Du Mosch's home after the surprise late-night visit. He said nature officials would likely release it back into the wild.

Du Mosch said he probably would not have been able to control the big cat were it in better health. As a nature guide, he said, he was familiar with animals and did his best to hold down the leopard without harming it. He said he took it all in stride, "but the kids were excited."

Hello Jim, and thanks for the report!
Where did you find this?
I have been studying Leopards for many years now, and I did visit a few places in Israel where Leopards are said to live, but after talking with the local biologists, I learned that they are on the brink of extinction in Israel.
Great news, and I'm glad they did not kill it.

Take Care!

Wolfgar

The report posted was from Fox news. I believe it originally went out from the Associated Press.

Jim

It had to be "very weak" otherwise it would have done a lot of slicing and dicing !!

Very rare ,if you try to figth a leopard the back legs will destroy your abdonen and the front legs and claws will attack your head.I hunted a lot pumas with my dogs and they always injured my dogs badly imagine a leopard.Juan

I would think a healthy leopard would shred a man in shorts.

If it did get to a grappling attack, I wonder if it would even be possible to take it's back (staying away from the claws) and apply a "mata leo" choke?

Maybe should practice up on something smaller first....