Man saves pet cat from leopard

An Israeli man has wrestled a leopard to the ground after it entered his bedroom and tried to make a meal of his pet cat.

Arthur De Mosh, a 45-year-old tour guide at the college near Kibbutz Sde Boker in southern Israel, was woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of the leopard trying to eat his cat.

Instead of panicking, he calmly removed the pet from the wild cat's jaws and waited for help.

Local park ranger Amram Zabari said: "He jumped on the leopard and pinned him to the floor, then his wife called us so we could take it away."

Experts said only ten leopards live in the wild in Israel.

The animal captured at the college was transferred to a veterinary hospital for treatment and then taken to a nature reserve.

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