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#105263 - 07/27/08 11:31 PM
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MattsKat
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If you haven't seen this touching video clip about a lion, see it now -- it's only 2.28 minutes long but it will make you smile for the rest of the day, I promise!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U
If you already saw it on "The View," watch it again. It's amazing! 
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#105267 - 07/28/08 01:03 AM
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AmBeck22
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That is just so touching! I saw it last week and teared up at the end. For an animal back in the wild to remember and love 2 humans that much is amazing, I think. Thank you for sharing it!
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#105271 - 07/28/08 06:04 AM
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JustJ
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FarawayDeb sent me a link to that and, I agree, it is well worth watching.
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#105274 - 07/28/08 07:57 AM
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BlankKeys
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That is so amazing! I'd never imagine that a full grown lion would run up to people like an excited puppydog. Obviously he remembered them and how they saved him from a miserable life. And people say animals have no souls!
Thanks for sharing, MK.
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#105298 - 07/28/08 12:28 PM
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fostermama
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I love that song. Can't see the keyboard right now. Miraculous.
If only more people understood the pure love and devotion animals give us lowly humans . . .
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#105304 - 07/28/08 01:06 PM
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vernondi
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I was crying at the end, it was such an obviously happy occasion for both the lion and his old friends!
The lion reminds me of our dog when we have been gone for a couple hours, just flying to the door to greet us, her tail wagging so hard, and just so happy to see us (oh heck, she does that if I go outside for 5 minutes to get the mail!)
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#105305 - 07/28/08 01:06 PM
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MattsKat
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It was hard to tell who was filled with more joy at their reunion, the lion or the two guys!
On the YouTube site, there's a link for "more info"... so of course I clicked on it.  I believe the older gentleman in the video is George Adamson.
CHRISTIAN THE LION AT WORLD'S END is the true life story of Christian the Lion and his journey from London England to Kenya East Africa to live a free life with conservationist George Adamson of Born Free fame and to join other wild lions. It is a remarkable story of trust, affection and friendship between man and lions.
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#105316 - 07/28/08 01:53 PM
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MattsKat
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I was looking for "Christian the Lion" on DVD and found this additional information:
The British documentary "Christian the Lion" is a fascinating example of life imitating art. In this case, the art was the 1966 film classic "Born Free" starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. That film was based on the real-life story of George and Joy Adamson and their successful efforts to re-introduce an orphaned lion into the wilderness.
"Christian the Lion" found Travers and McKenna in an advanced case of deja vu. In 1970, they were shopping for a desk and ventured into the World's End furniture store on the King's Road in London. The store managers, the Australian duo John Rendall and Ace Berg, recognized Travers and decided to show him the store's mascot: a young lion. Rendall and Berg had purchased the lion from the Harrod's department store a year earlier and were raising him on their own. But, of course, a furniture store is no place to keep a lion - and the combined salaries of two furniture store managers were barely keeping the animal fed.
Travers and McKenna, who had become highly visible as animal rights activists following the success of "Born Free," realized that the lion could not be kept as a domestic pet. And selling him to a zoo seemed like a cruel idea - zoo design was still fairly primitive in the early 1970s and imprisoning a majestic lion in a stark cage was a ghastly notion. Thus, Travers and McKenna decided to reprise their "Born Free" odyssey and called on George Adamson for an unlikely plan: to bring the London lion to Africa and teach him how to be a wild animal at home with nature. (Joy Adamson had separated from her husband in 1970 and, thus, was not a part of this venture.)
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=1942
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#105334 - 07/28/08 03:45 PM
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MattsKat
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Not really trying to "bump" this thread so much as I'm getting obsessed with this silly lion!
He's always greeted John and Ace/Tony with a big bear hug, so no wonder he hugged them again in Africa (...and he could just as easily have bitten both their heads off.)
Very short clip of Christian as a cub:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y90H77aPt0&feature=related
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#105521 - 07/29/08 10:13 PM
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elle2007
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I have to say how cool this is ...thanks. I showed it to the kids. We have puppies who act like that, too, but now we want a lion!
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#108059 - 08/19/08 05:47 PM
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pear
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This is almost a month late for me to reply, although
this video did make me smile a month ago.
I have been working on my MT training. but when I take a break I enjoy these kinds of threads.
I am glad someone else has a love for wild animals like lions.
We have a dog that will give hugs. I took a picture of a coyote that followed us down the road after our car. I do not believe he was chasing us for food. I had a seven-foot bear stand outside my window last year. He had wonderful eyes. The law prohibits us from taming wild animals in this area. All I can do is walk in the forest to see the coyotes,deer, and really big cats (do not know what kind) without fences. 
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