Sunday, August 03, 2008

Can This Be Real?


I am immediately skeptical of just about anything slightly unusual on-line, so not sure what to think of this video. However, www.snopes.com provides the following summary and reason to believe it's real.

I’ll bet you've never seen a pet like the one in this Video of the Day. In 1969, two friends, John Rendall and Ace Berg, purchased a lion. At the time, Christian the lion was a 35-pound cub. He had been born in a zoo. The friends raised Christian in their London home. All three hung out in a friend’s furniture shop on the weekends.

Within a year, Christian had grown to 185 lbs. Rendall and Berg realized they couldn’t keep him much longer. But they didn’t know what to do with him. A chance encounter changed that. Two actors from the film Born Free walked into the furniture store.

The actors recommended a conservationist, George Adamson, living in Kenya. Christian was soon in Africa. There he was rehabilitated and released into the wild.

In 1974, Rendall and Berg decided to visit Christian one last time. He was now a wild animal. Adamson told them it was doubtful that Christian could be found. No one had seen him in nine months.

The two flew to Kenya, anyway. On the day they landed, Christian appeared outside Adamson’s camp. Somehow, he knew. He waited outside the camp until Rendall and Berg arrived.

This video was taken during their reunion with Christian. What a story! What a video!

3 comments:

Shannon said...

Did you see when I posted that on my blog about a month ago? I had trouble believing it too. Cute story.

starnes family said...

That was pre-new computer. Couldn't watch videos for a while there. Crazy!!!! (the lion and the dinosaur computer I used to use!)

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