Lion Shot Dead For Being A " Wild Animal", I Dispair, You Couldn't Make It Up

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/huge-lion-that-savaged-british-safari-park-owner-shot-dead-by-its-keepers-sparking-furious-online-reaction/ar-AAwCBQY?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
Was it necessary to murder this magnificent animal because some brainless pillock entered his enclosure? Natural selection at work if you asked me. Why do we take out human mistakes on innocent animals? Fuming.

[andy-hughes]

jno - // He'd raised the lion from a cub and had never had trouble with it before. //

That has to be somewhat obvious - you only ever have trouble with an animal that size once!

[kvalidir]

Well if it was the video I saw earlier in the week he was a fool around lions because he turned his back on it, Lions I believe only ever attack people from behind, if you face them they won't attack but try to get around behind you.

[DTCwordfan]

they say human meat tastes like pork.....the lion would have known - if the lion was domesticated, then he/she would have asked for the human to be pulled, spiced and bbqed.

[Peter Pedant]

foo dat ! - -- - fume on....
it was trying to eat its owner wasnt it?

[Peter Pedant]

hey look dis den !
warning cute inappropriate viddie - they should be trying to eat her

[-Talbot-]

I agree, brainless pillock.
I never enter the lion's den without a top hat and a whip.

[wolf63]

Even a domestic cat can attack in the right/wrong circumstances.

Cats are very territorial, male cats are very, very territorial and to enter the Lion's territory was a stupid thing to do.

I have had some nasty wounds from my little kitties - I am not crazy enough to take chances with a Lion.

[douglas9401]

Ah, a different 'lions den' we think, Talbot.

Your predelictions are noted.

[wolf63]

This lion sees the two guys as a meal initially until he recognises them.

[andy-hughes]

It's the 'He won't hurt you ...' syndrome.

All dog owners say that, as their rampant beast leaps up at you trying to knock you over.

What they should really say is "He has never hurt anyone to date, but he is an animal, and like all animals, he has the potential to attack without warning ..."

But pet owners, and it seems wild animal breeders, lapse into a false sense of security, and that is what seemed to happen here.

With dogs, it's often a small child who pays the price for owners' rank stupidity in not understanding that their pet is an animal, and will behave as animals do - unpredictably.

In this case, it was the breeder, and ultimately the lion.

[askyourgran]

To be fair the "brainless pillock" was the man who had raised the lion from being a cub. He should have been more circumspect when entering the lions cage, after all big cats always have the wild instincts. Shame the lion had to be shot.

[sp1814]

This is just like when there's a shark attack in Surfers' Paradise in Australia.

No.

We as human beings might call the area 'Surfers' Paradise', but to sharks the whole areas is know as 'My Dining Room'. Every time there's a shark attack, you get people going out into the reef hunting great whites.

It makes no sense.

If you don't want to be attacked by a shark, take up another pastime.

...bingo, or cricket.

[ToraToraTora]

AH: "It's the 'He won't hurt you ...' syndrome. All dog owners say that, as their rampant beast leaps up at you trying to knock you over. " - Yes a fair assessment, not "all" dog owners through, I have 2 jack russels and one of them will attack anything, we have to be so careful especially around children.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // Yes a fair assessment, not "all" dog owners through, I have 2 jack russels and one of them will attack anything, we have to be so careful especially around children. //

Not all owners, but certainly all dog owners who let their dogs loose to attack complete strangers in the street / park wherever!

[jno]

some animals stay wild, some don't. (If you have a cheetah cub for a few days, for instance, he's yours for life.) The guy made a judgment based on considerable experience and he got it wrong. Most people make mistakes; doesn't mean he's brainless, any more than an experienced driver who lets his attention wander.

[ToraToraTora]

well jno you continue to defend this idiot, his lack of judgment was a death sentence for the Lion. On reflection I'd rather the lion survived. Sadly I suspect the DNA of the idiot has already been passed on.

[ToraToraTora]

he's "no fool" around lions spath, he probably thought that the lion thought he was something other than food. Perhaps he forgot his Harry Potter anti lion cloak, who knows but due to his stupidity a magnificent animal has been murdered.

[anotheoldgit]

I wonder if peoples thoughts would be different if they had shot the Lion in Africa, or would they still be saying man shouldn't have been in the Lion's domain?

[Mamyalynne]

Most are answering based on this incident at Marakele Animal Sanctuary in Thabazimbi, South Africa, had he wandered off and encountered a Lion elsewhere then he'd still have been foolhardy.