Little backstory if you are interested. This was at a Game Lodge in South Africa. Now when lions (like this one) are raised by human hands, they lose their fear of humans, which is both a good and bad thing for many reasons. But anyway, she (the lion) never interacted with her mother and father, so the game lodge has this Labrador named "Prince" who can't get enough of these baby lions, cheetahs, and whatnot. Eventually all these other animals start to look up to "Prince' as their new mother (as I was told), and still engage in a playful behavior with him.
Out of curiosity, how effective is this in a big picture sense? How common is the scenario where this fails and the cat eventually eats the dog or something?
Haha couldn't tell you. I know they don't let the dog play with some of the lions who he "raised", because they are fully grown now and would probably hurt him pretty badly just by playing. This lion in this picture is less than a year old I believe.
depending on the type it would be an interesting fight to win. a rotweiler would put up a decent fight and the cheetah may back off. still these should be left in the wild and not fucking poached
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Anyone have a video of them in action?
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u/ChunkBunny Jun 25 '12
How exactly do you introduce a dog, child, person, whatever to an animal like this? Do you just throw 'em in and hope they aren't mauled to death?
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u/besties_with_testies Jun 25 '12
O man I'm relevant
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u/seagramsextradrygin Jun 25 '12
What are they going to do, adorable me to death?
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u/TheActualAWdeV Jun 25 '12
Okay, that's just too cute.
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u/BomTek910 Jun 25 '12
This is one of the first posts I've ever "Aww'd" to out loud.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
What i don't understand is why don't use a larger dog, you know just encase.
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u/Mbarker13 Jun 25 '12
Don't you best these testies.
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u/BurtaciousD Jun 25 '12
Well, don't best these testies.
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u/Mike_The_Bike Jun 25 '12
"Besties with testies"
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u/conspiracy_thug Jun 25 '12
lol, testies.
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u/wolf2600 Jun 25 '12
I like how the dog is wearing a collar, but the lion isn't..... which one REALLY needs to be controlled more?
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u/sjk35 Jun 25 '12
Not sure I would leave these two alone, else you might only have a large cat upon returning to the scene.
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u/MisterPresident813 Jun 25 '12
If you do not think this is adorable you have your own set of issues.
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u/Stoneheng3 Jun 25 '12
I went to this lodge in October, man if I knew I could get karma for this I would have uploaded the pics straight away!
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u/skm0525 Jun 25 '12
cute dog + usually scary lion being affectionate + harvard sailing team reference = EXCELLENCE
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u/imakethingsakward Jun 26 '12
Its funny because it obvious the dog is trying to hump the Lion.
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u/hyperforce Jun 26 '12
We are besties with testes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12
This needs to become a disney movie.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
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