Insurance companies (and vets) know the breed too—which should be a pretty good hint.
Some people want lions as pets, but we don’t allow it. There’s really no need for faux wolves either.
“We had the sweetest rattlesnakes for pets... I can’t imagine why they would attack anyone”
“Some people want lions as pets, but we dont allow it.”
I couldn’t quickly find the number for lions, but supposedly there are 10,000 to 15,000 tigers kept as pets or in private facilities in the U.S. That’s more than there are in the wild in the world.
http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/bigcats/a/bigcatsaspets.htm