This is not the tiger that made the alleged attack. Photo: Coconuts Bangkok
A 19-year-old English tourist was reportedly attacked and bitten by a 400lb tiger at a tiger temple in Thailand.
The big cat allegedly knocked Isabelle Brennan of North Yorkshire, England to the ground with a paw and sunk its fangs into her thigh.
“I feel lucky to be alive. Everything happened so fast. One minute I was petting a tiger’s back, the next it turned its head and knocked me to the ground with its paw,” the University College London student told the Daily Mail.
Brennan said she was rescued when keepers at the temple jumped in between her and the tiger and her sister dragged her to safety.
“As it lunged with its teeth I felt an agonising pain on the inside of my left thigh above my knee. What happened next is a blur. But a keeper jumped in between myself and the tiger. Then, while the keepers pulled the tiger to stop it attacking me further, my older sister Georgie dragged me under my arms to safety. When I looked down at my leg it was terrifying. All I could see was blood.”
Two friends of Brennan tied a tourniquet around her leg and the wounded teenager was brought to Kanchanaburi Memorial Hospital where she received dozens of stiches for the four-inch wound, according to the Mail.
She stayed in the hospital in Thailand for two weeks with an infection and high fever, before she was well enough to return to the UK.
Brennan said that she can not walk without help and that she will remain physically and emotionally scarred for life.
