Saturday, January 09, 2010

Christian the Harrods Lion

FURRY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY

A MALE LION CUB, on sale in London's Harrods department store in the 1960s, was bought by two Chelsea furniture salesmen... As he grew and grew and rapidly became bigger than the biggest of big dogs, it became clear he could not stay in London. The only thing to do was to return the Christian to Africa ~ but would he survive in the wild?

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7 comments:

  1. Puss-in-Boots9 January 2010 at 05:00

    I just love that story and a few months ago, we were shown on TV the whole story of how Christian grew up with these two guys and the help they had in preparing him to go back to the wild. But the ending where he is so happy to see them after such a long time reduced me to tears...it was just beautiful. And Christian brought his mate along, too.

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  2. Akelamalu9 January 2010 at 11:04

    What a wonderful story!

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  3. Gledwood9 January 2010 at 15:09

    I saw it on TV a couple of weeks ago... it was also on my blog a year and a half ago, maybe, which is how I heard of it, when it went "viral" on the internet...

    what they miss out on this is the compound that was made for him at a country house in Surrey or somewhere... and that they returned to Africa twice, and the 2nd time Christian really did look like a boy lion, which massive mane and everything...

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  4. Jeannie9 January 2010 at 17:34

    Amazing!

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  5. Baino9 January 2010 at 20:08

    He was adopted by Joy Adamson (Born Free fame) and socialised with Boy, one of Elsa's cubs before being rehabilitated to the wild. Great story. Funny that it's over 30 years old and still going viral. Great video though.

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  6. Sarcastic Bastard11 January 2010 at 18:03

    I love this story and those two wonderful sweet men. I never tire of hearing about it or seeing the footage.

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