A teenage girl has been mauled by a cougar after a friend illegally entered a house to impress her by showing off the animal.
The 16-year-old was attacked in the home of a wildlife collector in Miami-Dade, Florida after she and Anthony Zitnick, 21, went into the house.
She was taken to hospital for surgery, but it is thought she will make a full recovery.
The home is owned by Alan Rigerman, who legally keeps two cougars, as well as snakes, tortoises and alligators. He was at a reptile show at the time.
Zitnick was arrested for unauthorised entry. He was treated for shock by paramedics after Chaos, a 70-kg cougar, attacked the girl.
The four-year-old animal jumped on the girl and put its jaws around her head.
A neighbour heard the girl's screams and burst into the house before kicking and punching the cougar away from the girl.
Rigerman said Zitnick entered the house using a key he had given him after Hurricane Wilma in 2005, when Zitnick did gardening work for him.
Chaos remains at the house, locked up in a cage. An investigation is under way.
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