Why do reunions bring a lump to your throat?
In 1969, two friends, John Rendall and Ace Berg, purchased a lion. At the time, Christian the lion was a 35-pound cub. He had been born in a zoo. The friends raised Christian in their London home. All three hung out in a friend’s furniture shop on the weekends.Within a year, Christian had grown to 185 lbs. Rendall and Berg realized they couldn’t keep him much longer. But they didn’t know what to do with him. A chance encounter changed that. Two actors from the film Born Free walked into the furniture store.
The actors recommended a conservationist, George Adamson, living in Kenya. Christian was soon in Africa. There he was rehabilitated and released into the wild.
In 1974, Rendall and Berg decided to visit Christian one last time. He was now a wild animal. Adamson told them it was doubtful that Christian could be found. No one had seen him in nine months.
The two flew to Kenya, anyway. On the day they landed, Christian appeared outside Adamson’s camp. Somehow, he knew. He waited outside the camp until Rendall and Berg arrived.
This video was taken during their reunion with Christian. What a story! What a video!
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that video made me want to cry! so sweet…and what a big sweet animal…sort of.
also – the music is timed perfectly on the video
Ok… I’m crying. Imagine if we could embrace Daddy’s love like that.
I just knew this would be a video where the lion attacks them. Now that would have been funny. As long as it was not real of course!
I agree with Steve… I was waiting for the twist. Interesting video… a tad weird, but I get the point. Thanks for sharing.
I showed this post to my kids and reposted on my blog. My two eldest are my kids!! They thought the freaks would get mauled.
By freaks I meant hippies – sorry!