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FULL LENGTH MOVIE OF CHRISTIAN THE LION CUB REUNION REUNITED, with John Rendall Ace Bourke George Adamson Born Free.

A great link here at Snopes all about Christian the lion and his story with the born free foundation.


Today, Ace Bourke is a museum curator in Australia. John Rendall is a trustee of the George Adamson Wildlife Trust, an organization actively involved in preserving African wildlife. The organization, according to Rendall, is part of Christian's legacy. Rendall recommends the site www.WildlifeNow.com.
Ace Bourke is the Blonde in the Khaki shirt

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The orphaned baby lion cub is reunited with his keepers in africa a heart warming true story.
He travelled by Bentley, ate in fine London restaurants and spent his days lounging in a furniture shop. The story of Christian the pet lion - and his eventual release into the wild - is as moving as it is incredible.
The furniture shop was on the King's Road in London. It sold tables, wardrobes, chairs and desks - but anybody peering through its plate-glass window on a Sunday might have noticed something rather more unusual.
Amid all the pine and oak, stretched out languidly on a bench, there was a lion. And it wasn't stuffed.
"Christian used to lie beside me while I did the accounts at weekends," remembers Jennifer Mary Taylor, who worked there.
"And every so often, if I'd ignored him for too long, he'd sock me across the head with one of his great big paws.
"He was very loving and affectionate - he liked to stand and put his paws on your shoulders. But he was...", she pauses. "I mean, he was a lion. Does that sound silly?"
christian the lion (named by someone with a Biblical sense of humour) arrived in Chelsea at a time when the King's Road - home to Mick Jagger - was the very heart of the Swinging Sixties.
For a year, the Big Cat was part of it all, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at Casserole, a local restaurant, even posing for a Biba fashion advert.
He eventually grew too big to be kept as a pet and was taken to Kenya, where he was rehabilitated into the wild by the 'Lion Man', George Adamson.
Now, his story is to be told in a new book, written by the Australian John Rendall who, along with his friend Ace Berg, bought Christian from Harrods in 1969.
So what possessed them to buy a lion cub in the first place?
"A friend had been to the 'exotic animals' department at Harrods and announced, rather grandly, that she wanted a camel," says Rendall.
"To which the manager very coolly replied: 'One hump or two, madam?'
"Ace and I thought this was the most sophisticated repartee we'd ever heard, so we went along to check it out - and there, in a small cage, was a gorgeous little lion cub. We were shocked. We looked at each other and said something's got to be done about that."
Harrods, it turned out, was also quite keen to be rid of Christian, who had escaped one night, sneaked into the neighbouring carpet department - then in the throes of a sale of goatskin rugs - and wreaked havoc.
The store, which had acquired the cub from Ilfracombe zoo, happily agreed to part with him for 250 guineas. So began Christian's year as an urban lion.
Today, it would be unthinkable for a shop to take such a cavalier attitude towards selling exotic animals (though Harrods did, at least, provide Ace and Rendall with diet sheets).
And it is hard to imagine either the animal rights lobby or any local council condoning a shop as a suitable habitat for a lion. But, back then, no one minded at all.
Christian was given his own living quarters (and a very large kitty-litter tray, which he used unfailingly) in the basement of the appropriately named Sophistocat furniture shop.
"He had a beautiful musky smell that was very distinct," says Rendall. "But he was clean."
The vicar of the Moravian Chapel nearby was approached to allow Christian the run of the graveyard, and every day he was taken there to roar around and play football.
Once, when he was brought along to a seaside picnic, he dipped his toes reluctantly in the water and intimated with a shudder that it was disagreeably cold. But he was eventually persuaded to swim in the English Channel.

By the way John Rendal and Ace Bourke both released a book in 1972 called A LION CALLED CHRISTIAN heres a link to it on amazon


Full story can be read here:



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Uploaded: July 29, 2008 at 4:54 am
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Length: 00:02:28
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numbing numbered numerous Comments:
javsterrr (December 2, 2008 at 6:08 pm)
FUCKING AWESOME
weeksie21 (December 2, 2008 at 3:18 pm)
He actually had WiveS, as prides go, males have more than one. AND he had a son too! And they all accepted Christian's human friends, it's really very touching!
NascarxBobby (December 2, 2008 at 8:40 am)
Although I am very much against wild animals as pets, I love this video.
arvinjuan (December 2, 2008 at 6:54 am)
wow this is very touching. i would like to have a cub of my own. hehehe.
davidwicken (December 2, 2008 at 2:04 am)
dude i balled my ass off all i can say is wow that lion looked like it was ballin to ..lol he was happy to see his bros !!much love
davidwicken (December 2, 2008 at 1:59 am)
all i can say is wow...and yes im manenf to say that i was ballin...lol but yha that was bad ass
zizzie558 (December 1, 2008 at 9:02 pm)
i cried when i saw this
ckmusic17 (December 1, 2008 at 4:09 pm)
that is not true
gooper3 (December 1, 2008 at 3:55 pm)
this Lion attacked it's owners like 8 months after this video was made! You just cant trust animals that should be left in the wild. Be very careful or you will become dinner
emma9295 (December 1, 2008 at 3:44 pm)
sad but good