My sister told me about a video of a lion which she watched recently on youtube and I was quite fascinated by her story and decided to check it out myself.
I did a search on youtube, putting in the words "lion video" and there were multiple results about "Christian the Lion" and "Reunion".
I clicked on one of the links and was just amazed by what I saw.
Basically, Christian the Lion's story is about how these 2 guys bought a lion cub from Harrods in London back in 1969. They saw this cute little lion cub and in a small cage and decided to buy it and take it home.
They kept him in their furniture shop in London and for exercise, a local church vicar allowed them to use the church grounds to let Christian run. The thing is he started growing too big for them and they eventually contacted George Adamson, the "Born Free" guy to release Christian back into the wild.
It was about a year later when they went back to look for Christian, but before going, they were told that he wouldn't be able to recognise them. They went anyway and just see what happens in the video link below. Its a link to the youtube clip with also features the 2 guys 35 years later. Amazing story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXEZ2T_o6eM
Here's a write up on Christian the Lion
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452820/Christian-lion-lived-London-living-room.html
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