Let’s go on the soft side on this glorious morning, shall we?
Here’s a little story that I just found today.
Christian was a lion originally purchased by Australians John Rendall and Anthony ‘Ace’ Bourke from Harrods department store of London in 1969 and ultimately reintroduced to the wild.
When Rendall and Bourke were informed by Adamson of Christian’s successful reintroduction to the wild (reported in some newspaper articles to be in 1971, and by George Adamson to be 1972), they travelled to Kenya to visit Christian and were filmed in the documentary Christian, The Lion at World’s End. According to the documentary, Adamson advised Rendall and Bourke that Christian may not remember them. The film shows the lion at first cautiously approach and then quickly leap gently onto the two men, standing on his hind legs and wrapping his front legs around their shoulders, nuzzling their faces. The documentary also shows the female lions, Mona and Lisa, and a foster cub named Supercub welcoming the two men.
To sum it up, Christian is a lion that was raised by 2 men and he was released in the wild in Africa because he was too big for them to take care of.
After a few months or years later, they decided to go back to Africa and reunite with Christian, but they were told that Christian would not remember them anymore.
Click more to witness the amazing and touching moment. ;_;
*sob*
I wonder if I can do that to my cat.
Instead of hugging me, they’d go back home and jump onto the table and will only ask for food.
thats amazing man :(