The incredible story of ''Christian" the pet lion

Have you read or heard of the play by George Bernard Shaw "Androcles and the Lion" and wondered if it could ever happen? Could a carnivore, lion ever love a human being for the kindness he showed to it and display mercy in return ? Uh ! Hard to believe right ?

Androcles, who is a slave puts off pain from an ailing lion by removing a thorn stuck to its paw. He is captured and when was thrown into the gladiator to be killed by the lion, the lion happens to be the same lion which he had helped when he was hiding in the woods before being captured by the Roman soldiers.

It is a great story of human sport ever since and it had never been heard of to happen in real life ever until I read this story of a pet lion cub, Christian who was raised as a cub in a Chelsea London flat by John Rendall and Ace Berg. The cub was bought in 1969 at London's Harrod Store and was raised as if it was a pet dog. Later as Christian grew bigger, the owners happened to meet the stars of the movie Born free and inspired by the movie, they considered rehabilitating Christian back to the wild and introduced him back to the woods in Nairobi Kenya's Kora national park. Year after year, the owners go to visit Christian at his newfound natural home, not expecting him to remember them, but to their heartknotting surprise, Christian unfailingly recognizes them and shows how much he misses them by hugging them around the shoulders lovingly the way he always did. Watch this video to see this touching story of Christian. After seeing this story, all I did was just cried !




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