
Anyway someone just shared a heart-warming Youtube video. I might be a little outdated and maybe most of you guys have seen it already. It's about Christian the lion. And I'll just paste what I found here:
The video is the work of Anthony "Ace" Bourke and John Rendall, two Australians living in the hip Chelsea section of London in 1969. According to published reports, a friend came back from a trip to Harrods and told them that you could buy exotic animals there.
The two friends went there out of curiosity and spotted a 35-pound lion cub in a small cage. The cub had been born in a zoo and sold to the department store, which wasn’t considered that unusual back then.
Bourke and Rendall felt sorry for the cub and bought it. The store was glad to be rid of it, as the cub had broken out of its cage one night and wreaked havoc on a display of imported goatskin rugs.
To make a long story short, the two young men kept the lion cub, which they named Christian, in their living room. They became local celebrities of sorts, parading around London with him, taking him to restaurants and even playing soccer with him, according to a lengthy piece in the Daily Mail.
But as the 35-pound cub grew to 185 pounds and food bills became astronomical, they knew he would have to be released to a less urban habitat. So they arranged to take him to a wildlife refuge in Kenya. They visited him periodically for several years...
...After going without seeing their old friend for several months, they were told he had adapted to his new environment, and the two returned to say goodbye. That's when the famed reunion took place.
"Christian stared at us in a very intense way," Rendall told the Daily Mail:
"I knew his expressions, and I could see he was interested. We called him and he stood up and started to walk towards us very slowly. "Then, as if he had become convinced it was us, he ran towards us, threw himself on to us, knocked us over, knocked George over and hugged us, like he used to, with his paws on our shoulders."
After watching it, you're gonna go 'Awwwww'. Alright, time to hit the sack!
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