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Old 19-08-2017, 09:47 PM #1
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Take a look at this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/Sju3kSTAzdI

Love this video. Back in the 70s two students in London bought the lion cub at Harrods. As he got bigger and less manageable they decided to give him a chance at Freedom in Africa.

After a year, despite being told his was now wild with a pride of his own and wouldn't remember them, they went back to see him. His reaction to them was lovely.
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Imagine going into Harrods and ordering a lion cub today
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It's mesmerising Suze. I have watched it so many times as I find it very moving. It just proves how close Nature and nurture are. Even with a wild animal if you give love you get it back.
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Imagine going into Harrods and ordering a lion cub today
How times have changed.
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Damn, I didn't expect that to affect me so much. Thank you for posting it!
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Damn, I didn't expect that to affect me so much. Thank you for posting it!
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..lovely to see but FFS how did these 'upper class twits' think this was a good idea

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..lovely to see but FFS how did these 'upper class twits' think this was a good idea

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They did the best thing for the lion by sending him to Africa to be a lion. If someone else had bought him he would probably have ended up in a zoo or worse. They adored that lion and vice versa as can be clearly seen.

Selling lions in department stores is the problem here - not anything they did.
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....do you really think that harrods had several lions on offer in store

this would have been a 'special order' no demand...no sale

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loved the lion though and am not questioning the owners loving care but this so clearly was NOT a good idea
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....do you really think that harrods had several lions on offer in store

this would have been a 'special order' no demand...no sale

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loved the lion though and am not questioning the owners loving care but this so clearly was NOT a good idea
http://www.alioncalledchristian.com.au/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/...t-grew-market/

There were two lion cubs for sale - one boy and one girl. No one knows what became of the female.
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thanks! but OMG what a mess.................NOT a good idea all round

i still continue to think that if it had not been for these 'upper class twits@ and others
buying lions they would not have been in harrods in the first place

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