Attacking (they say) male Lion from 10 feet away. Read the story
HERE. I dunno, how come he still looks so cute? And this is from someone who is afraid of Lions. Hell, the natives in Zimbabwe carry a stick to poke in their faces if they get too close. Seriously, a stick. In America we like to dangle children over their cages and jump in and let Jesus save us. So wtf do I know? I'm waiting for one to show up here. I've seen just about everything else here. Mountain Lion in my garage? Check. Bob Cats in a trailer? Check. Giant Black Bear in a small cage in a corn field? Check. So, nothing surprises me too much. It would depend on the day, but, I'd either bust out laughing or run like hell while throwing my shoes at it. Let's face it, if it didn't kill me, I'd probably end up with it in my backyard feeding it with food stamps and desperately looking for someone to take it before the cops showed up. Nice kitty!
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He looks scarey as heck to me. The eyes and the teeth!!! I've been close to them (relatively) at drive-through nature parks, and they are gorgeous, but I would never want to encounter them otherwise. Like tigers, they just are too scarey and unpredictable.
I watched some discovery or national geographic or something within the last year, on guys who were hunting a tiger who had been terrorizing a Siberian village. They couldn't find the big kitty, and turned around to go back to the village for the evening. The guy who had been at the front of the hunt turned back just to look for a moment. The tiger was on him, and he reflexively shot. The tiger actually had the rifle down it's throat. He was that silent. It had been there watching them, but so well hidden they didn't see it.
Big cats, cougars included, scare the crap out of me. LOL at the idea of you trying to find a home for the kitty before the cops get there. That is so you, Pat.
Christina
Christina, I was half kidding, you know I would try to save it somehow though. But, my experiences with big cats terrified me. The people that own them are seriously mentally ill in most cases. I know because, I once wanted a Cheetah. Did the research, they are considered feline, but, are actually more canine like. The do not have retractable claws, they make good pets when gotten young, they are not usually dangerous, etc, etc. They need space to run. We had it. My man (the big game hunter) and I set out to find a Cheetah to bring home and love. What we found all across this country was the weirdest assortment of mentally damaged people housing all kinds of big cats, secretly, in every kind of situation you can imagine. No, thank you, I do not want your old lion. I want a Cheetah kitten. Oh, how did your little boy lose his arm? That mountain lion over there, in the corner? No, thanks, I don't need that either. It was horrifying. We went home and bought some new horses and some geese.
PS, one of the new fancy horses immediately broke the old man's collar bone. We should have gotten the Mountain Lion. LMAO!
So did I ever tell you about the time I was at Metro Toronto Zoo and wandered off the path and ended up face to face with a lioness in some kind of quarantine building? Sort of a one room deal and one one side a huge plate glass window. It was really thick glass. She was not happy. She started roaring. Indescribable how loud it was. It rumbled everything around her and rumbled inside my chest and right through my entire skeleton. It was paralyzing. Bigger vibrations than standing next to a bank of speakers at a rock concert. She was sick and behind glass and terrifying. I don't know what she would have sounded like without the glass but I never want to find out.
Man, did you pee yourself a little? When we were at the zoo that last time, some idiots were pissing off a male tiger. He was in a nature enclosure with glass in front. He could have just left, but, he was pissed. I wanted the hell out of there. Casey J has vid I think. I have one pic and I grabbed the kid and booked. Those big cats are not to be fucked with. What is wrong with people?
ps, he was a weird black and white tiger with blue eyes which made it even creepier. He was trying to break the glass. Man.
Years and years ago, I was a docent at the local zoo. It was a time when a lot of exhibits were being upgraded to more humane habitats for the animals, but the tigers were still in a large caged area where you could get about four feet from the cage behind a low fence. One male tiger would often pace and pace until he would abruptly turn, lift his tail and squirt a strong stream of stinking hot piss at the observers. I learned to anticipate it and dodge and to keep the groups of school kids back, but went home more than once in clothes that needed immediate laundering.
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