By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:46 EST, 11 July 2013 | UPDATED: 16:01 EST, 11 July 2013 A Canadian teen got a little too close for comfort to a lion she was helping care for in a South African rehabilitation facility when the beast tried to drag her into its cage by the legs. Lauren Fagen, 18, was volunteering at the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre when she leaned in to kiss the beast's fur. The Montreal girl was then pulled into the animal's cage, her legs gnawed and gashed by the lion and its mate, before she was finally dragged away by a lifesaving fellow volunteer.
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Lauren Fagen was volunteering at the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in South Africa
Lucky: Fagen seemed to be doing alright and will be home in @placeholder soon.