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A stray 50-pound female retriever mix led workers at the Memphis (Tennessee) Zoo on a chase before swimming a 12-foot moat to find herself in the jaws of a 225-pound Sumatran tiger. And she lived.

The stray found her way into the Zoo through a service entrance. She was in the tiger's mouth for a few minutes. After the tiger, which was born in captivity, let her go, the stray dog was treated by the Zoo's emergency medical staff before being transported to Animal Emergency Medical Center.

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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"She's resting comfortably," said clinic manager Clarita Atkinson. "She's fairly unscathed for the amount of damage that could have been done."

The dog was wearing a collar that did not include an address, [zoo spokesman Brian] Carter said, and zoo officials were trying to find the animal's owner. The zoo is in a large park in a residential area of the city.

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