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christian the lion
« on: September 05, 2008, 01:23:04 PM »
you have got to see this video.  it is on you tube under christian the lion.  it is a beautiful and very touching short film.  it only lasts a minute and a half.  please go.  you will not be sorry.

i am going to try and post the link, but if it doesn't work, please go. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNTdWbVBgc

  there is a longer version that is 6 minutes long. 
unbelievable story
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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2008, 02:23:51 PM »
Thank you for posting that link. I saw it a couple of mos ago on snopes. But your link offers many videos. It is a GREAT story. LOVE IT. Who would have thought . Animals are a wonderment!

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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2008, 02:51:35 PM »
My daughter sent me that video a while ago...it is AWESOME!!! 
I couldn't believe how that lion just couldn't seem to get enough hugging.  It made me cry!   :'( o(:-)
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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2008, 03:36:32 PM »
What a big sweety!
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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2008, 10:20:50 AM »
I saw that a while back too. It just gives me the shivers. In one way that lion is just a big kitty cat but on the other hand, I don't know if I would have had the courage to just stand there when it was running towards me.
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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2008, 02:50:09 PM »
Esther, I thought that too the first time I saw it!   :o

I read somewhere (maybe on MSNBC?) that they were doing to do a movie about Christian and his life growing up with the two guys, based on the book one (or both...boy, my memory is great, isn't it!   lol) of them had written.  That should be interesting.   :)
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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2008, 04:52:43 PM »
It is a wonderful film clip. Funny how it is making it's way around the world thirty plus years after the fact. The clip is from 1972.

There was a movie filmed in 1971 when they were returning Christian to the wild with George Adamson:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074315/

Here is an update with the two men:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25797678/

Looks like there may be another movie that addresses the current You Tube phenomenon.

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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2008, 06:15:52 PM »
I don't mind admitting that I shed a tear, or six. Amazing what happens when you mix the British Empire and people who just love animals.

Going through Harrods in 1976, I did not see any wild animals for sale, but our British hosts did explain that Harrods did anything - if you could afford it. "Want that Indian Elephant gift wrapped and on your husbands' mistrisses' patio at tea time? No problem at all - Just let me have your charge account number.

Customer service has along way to go to catch up with what it once was!

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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2008, 01:37:11 AM »
my reaction was to cry as well.  when you see how much he loves his former owners and lavishs himself on them with true lion tenderness.....just blew me away.  simply put, he remembered them and still loved them.  who would have ever imagined that a lion in the wild for a year, could go back to being a baby kitty by seeing his former owners.
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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2008, 12:49:38 PM »
Oh yea, I cried.
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Re: christian the lion
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2008, 01:55:30 PM »
I did not.

I actually thought it was going to be a set up so was expecting that.  Good that it wasn't.  It was very touching.

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