But the lion had a name!
My Dad grew up on a farm. When asked if he named his pigs or other stock and he just looked at me as if I were crazy. Giving an animal a name makes it a lot harder to kill it when the time comes.
Americans have sooooo much to worry about.
I heard a story about a pig farmer. A salesman was lost and stopped to ask a farmer for directions. As the farmer was telling him how to find the main highway, a pig limped by on three legs. The sales man asked about the crippled pig and the farmer told him how the pig had saved the whole family by waking them up the previous night when the house caught fire. The pig had unlocked the front door and repeatedly rang the door bell to wake everyone up. The salesman asked if the pig had lost his leg in the fire. The farmer said, “No, but a pig that smart you don’t eat all at once.”