Boy comes face-to-face with escaped cheetah
A nine-year-old boy came face-to-face with an escaped CHEETAH in his back garden.
The animal had escaped through a faulty electric fence from Hamerton Zoo, Cambridgeshire, and found its way into the nearby garden.
Young Toby Taylor was shocked to see the animal as he went out to play ... and promptly did the sensible thing and ran away from it.
After telling him off for slamming the door "But mom there is a Cheetah in the garden" his mum Jules called 999 and keepers from the zoo came to collect the beast.
Zoo bosses say the 6ft-long animal, which can reach speeds of up to 70mph, would not have attacked the lad, though at one stage it tried to bite its owners as they captured it.
It also chewed its way through the seat and tyres on Tobys bike.
Since the incident Toby has been to see the cheetah at the zoo, and the dodgy electric fence have been replaced.
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