Dog recovering after Memphis Zoo tiger attack

If there is one place to avoid while on the lam in a zoo, it is the tiger pit. One stray dog learned that lesson the hard way and was recovering Wednesday from puncture wounds to its neck and shoulders.

"This is one lucky animal," Memphis Zoo spokesman Brian Carter said of the dog.

The 50-pound female retriever mix darted inside a service entrance to the zoo on Tuesday and led workers on a brief chase before it bolted over a 4-foot-high visitors railing and a retaining wall at the tiger exhibit.

She swam across a 12-foot-wide moat to the interior of the exhibit and was quickly attacked by a 225-pound female Sumatran tiger. The open exhibit's main walls are 18 feet high.

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Zoo workers, who were close on the dog's trail, used fireworks and air horns to distract the two tigers in the exhibit and get them into their night enclosures behind the exhibit's viewing area.

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Lucky dog and good job by zoo workers!

I hope that someone adopts her and gives her a good forever home.

WTF are they feeding the cats around here!

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:D

'experience' in killing their own dinners! Watch the video. They've named the dog 'Tiger'!