just your average pet moggy...
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I know people are idiots for doing things like this and I know big cats should be out in the wild, but, it makes me glad when people keep animals like this as pets because at least then their safety and wellbeing is cared for and there is less chance of the animal being turned into a rug.
On the other hand, I do really enjoy hearing about the ostentatiously rich who get mauled by their own pets.
There was the gay couple who lived in London in the 60's (sorry, that is as much detail as I can remember) who had a lion. They bought him from Harrods (probably) and kept him for something like 6 years but had to return him to Africa as he got too big. When they returned to Africa to see him years later the lion remembered them immediately and went and gave them a hug. Perhaps that could be seen as a demonstration that not necessarily all exotic animal owners will one day be lunch for their pets, that it could potentially be down to the animal being treated correctly and not like some gaudy frippery of a status symbol as the South Africans in the article appear to do.
Basically, don't take the piss and you won't get eaten.
On the other hand, I do really enjoy hearing about the ostentatiously rich who get mauled by their own pets.
There was the gay couple who lived in London in the 60's (sorry, that is as much detail as I can remember) who had a lion. They bought him from Harrods (probably) and kept him for something like 6 years but had to return him to Africa as he got too big. When they returned to Africa to see him years later the lion remembered them immediately and went and gave them a hug. Perhaps that could be seen as a demonstration that not necessarily all exotic animal owners will one day be lunch for their pets, that it could potentially be down to the animal being treated correctly and not like some gaudy frippery of a status symbol as the South Africans in the article appear to do.
Basically, don't take the piss and you won't get eaten.
The Nur said:
There was the gay couple who lived in London in the 60's (sorry, that is as much detail as I can remember) who had a lion. They bought him from Harrods (probably) and kept him for something like 6 years but had to return him to Africa as he got too big. When they returned to Africa to see him years later the lion remembered them immediately and went and gave them a hug.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLqVshIM4w
The Nur said:
I appear to have gotten something in my eye 
That is a magnificent animal, and to have such a relationship with it a rare privilege, but I think raising such a potentially dangerous animal as a family pet is unfair if (as seems likely) one day it will do something which will condemn it to life in a zoo or worse.
Much as I love our cats, I couldn't imagine living with them if I knew they could slaughter us and our guests on a whim.
Much as I love our cats, I couldn't imagine living with them if I knew they could slaughter us and our guests on a whim.
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