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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U

What a lovely story eh?

I'll put this one in my "animals are often better than humans" file.

I know I'm not the only one disappointed that the lion didn't have them for dinner though.

I know I'm not the only one disappointed that the lion didn't have them for dinner though.Yeah, I was waiting for that.

I'll put this one in my "animals are often better than humans" file.

I know I'm not the only one disappointed that the lion didn't have them for dinner though.

Well, you could read about those articles where people climb into lion cages or step out of their vehicles despite warnings not to in naturalized safari parks with lions. Those won't disappoint.

That being said, it's an interesting story, but not very unique. There have been numerous stories of normally wild animals taken in at a young age and then reintroduced to the wild though they remember their human caregivers years later.

Although I do remember an odd one about how this lioness would kidnap, I think it was a very young gazelle, from the herd in order to "adopt" it as a form of replacement for her litter which died young. It didn't work out, the gazelle would die from lack of nourishment (the lioness couldn't suckle the young), and then she'd be back at kidnapping another one for adoption.

I'll put this one in my "animals are often better than humans" file.
I can only imagine that that's an extraordinarily large file.

I know I'm not the only one disappointed that the lion didn't have them for dinner though.
Yep. :(

hmm.,. perfect holiwood plotline
1. Hippy meets lion
2. Hippy falls in love with lion
3. Hippy has to choose between the the lions freedom or his own hapiness
4. hippy has reunion with lion, sleeps with lions missus.

I'll put this one in my "animals are often better than humans" file.

I know I'm not the only one disappointed that the lion didn't have them for dinner though.Why? What about the couple who bought him to free him from the cage and then returned him to wild? Does that not qualify under your criteria?

Oh, and I recognise the scantily clad and heavily tanned dude on the right. He was a huge name amongst those that worked with Lions. I think he wrote the book that Born Free was based on. Or was the film just about him and his life. I don't know. But I know it's him. Whoever he is. Wiki suggests that I'm probably thinking of George Adamson.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U

What a lovely story eh?
Once again I really wish that video came without the horrid song.
Either way, for the sake of completeness, here's an article on the story, which is even cooler than the video (if we believe the Daily Mail which, this time, I will, because I want to, so there): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452820/Christian-lion-lived-London-living-room.html

There's a certain irony in a lion named Christian. I approve.

I've seen this several times and I still cry... (what the hell is wrong with me?)

Bo-ornn free-ee, as free as the wind blows, as free as the gra-ss grows, born free da da da da da....

BORN FREE.....

(what the hell is wrong with me?)

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