Lion and Lamb lie down together in Kenya! (my title)

DailyNation on the Web ^ | January 7, 2002 | MUGUMO MUNENE

[Sabertooth]

Here's another pic:

Yet another sign of the Apocalypse.

Lions like this give large predatory cats a bad name.

[Sabertooth]

(((ping))))

[dighton]

Now this is an astonishing story.

[.30Carbine]

I know a Tiger very much like the big cat in this story.

Yes, both big cats are "signs of the times." ( :

Thanks so much for posting this story. I hope we get updates.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Orual]

Absolutely unbelievable, especially in light of the fact that the lioness does all the hunting while her master, the King, and the kids wait for her return. And they get to eat only after he's done. I've seen them stalk and hunt in several game parks in Kenya, and I still find it incredible that this lioness didn't tear the oryx apart at first sight since they are careful to select the most vulnerable of prey.

[Howie]

I have a 5 yr. old female Doberman that has never had pups but hasn't been spayed. Once a year she goes into a "mother mode", the vet says it is a "false pregnancy". He says it is a hormonal thing. She will get milk in her teats, they droop like a new mother, she will become very anxious, will eventually round up a bunch of her plastic toys and pile them up and groom, and guard them for a month or more.

If a stranger or my wife gets close to them she threatens them, growls, shows fangs, etc.), she allows me to pick them up but is very uncomfortable when I do.

She seems very frustrated because they refuse to nurse. If my wife tries to hide them from her she sniffs them out and piles them up again. There is no doubt she thinks they are puppies.

Maybe lions have this condition, also? Regards, Howie

[Doctor Stochastic]

Raise your own food?

[Orual]

Raise your own food?

Run that by me again. Don't quite get it.

[dighton]

[Paul Leyhausen] once had a wild cat named Tilly, whose diet included live rats. One of them managed to escape being caught by hiding under the cat's sleeping box. From there it made forays into the cage, nipping at Tilly's heels in a most unsettling manner. (Rats aren't supposed to be aggressors.) Finally, Tilly decided it was a "pet" rat and not a "food" rat, and gave it the run of the cage. She went about her daily business of killing food rats without ever mistaking her pet rat for one of them. In fact, the two of them came in time to eat fresh-killed rats together.

Tilly never struck at or bit her pet rat, even when it snatched food away from her, and eventually it moved from under her sleeping box into her sleeping box. Tilly slept holding it to her breast with her fore paws. This idyllic comradeship lasted four months, at the end of which Leyhausen took the rat away from her. Three months later, he returned it to her cage. Tilly showed no sign of recognition, and started after it. It had turned into a "food" rat. The rat, too big now to hide under the cat's sleeping box, jumped into its one-time refuge. But the appeal to auld lang syne was fruitless: Tilly leaped into the box and killed and ate her former friend.

-- Muriel Beadle, The Cat.

[mercy]

Lion Shows Unusual Intelligence and Takes Up Practice of Animal Husbandry ... Would be my headline. She's just waiting for her meal to put on a little weight.

[Fred Mertz]

I hope the lioness doesn't get too hungry one day.

[Orual]

Tilly leaped into the box and killed and ate her former friend.

Note to the oryx: Stay close by. Forever.

Some people just don't know the right buttons to push.

[Sabertooth]

She's just waiting for her meal to put on a little weight.

And people ask me why they call you mercy.

[Rebelbase]

Cats always like to play with live food before eating it. This one is just enjoying the game longer than most.

[denydenydeny]

I think it was Woody Allen who said that the lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Cats and dogs, living in sin. The lion turns her back on the laws of nature that feed her. Ya think this lion's name is David Brock, Jim Jeffords, or Teresa Heinz?

[Samwise]

Cats and dogs, living in sin.

Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!

[MaeWest]

What a couple of sweeties. Hope it lasts.