La Voix du Nord reported that the teenager believed she had been hallucinating after having medication for the removal of wisdom teeth. Read more: Paris zoo puts an end to escaped baboons' monkeyshinesĭuring its escapade, the panther entered another flat where a 15-year-old girl saw it descending the stairs. After being put into a cage, the animal was handed over to the care of France's Animal Protection League, who described it as 'a baby' and 'not at all aggressive.'
There, a team was able to trap the panther and a veterinarian put it to sleep with a tranquilizer dart. Emergency services were called out in the northern French town of Armentieres, after being alerted to the fact that a young panther was having an evening on the tiles.īemused onlookers in the town, not far from the Belgian border, had spotted the feline slinking along the rafters of a three-story red brick building.Īccording to the regional newspaper La Voix du Nord, the panther stopped occasionally to watch a train pass or a cat strutting on the pavement below.Īuthorities were alerted, and police threw up a cordon around the building before the ink-black cat slipped through a window to an apartment believed to belong to its owner.