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Ligers Speak Out
Ligers have long fascinated people with their dashing looks and unique backgrounds. These rare creatures are the hybrid offspring of male lions coupling with female tigers. Until now, these majestic creatures have remained rather silent, but they have finally decided to speak out. Of course, as felines, they have found the best…
Dogs and cats are supposed to be enemies, but what about dogs and big cats? Honey is a dog and her best friend is a white lion cub named Kwanzaa. So there, nature! Kwanzaa was born at Australia's Darling Downs Zoo in November of last year, and when his mother stopped producing milk, he had to be hand-raised by zookeepers. That's when he met and bonded with Honey, and now the two are inseparable. We don't like to think about the time in the future when Kwanzaa is a full-grown lion and these two may not be able to wrestle like they used to, so for now, we're just going to watch and enjoy this unlikely pairing. ...
It really is so hard to say goodbye to yesterday, especially when yesterday was your last day working at the lion park, and the cubs there all pig-pile you for a marathon of hugs and kisses because they don't want you to go. This goodbye is the very definition of bittersweet, readers. It's so bitter because goodbyes are so hard, because our man is never going to see these cubs again, and his heart is clearly breaking because the cubs don't understand exactly that, although perhaps they realize that something is going on. And it's so sweet because the bond of affection between man and beast here is so real and so palpable. This is the kind of goodbye we can only hope for whenever anything ...
We've warned you about this type of thing before. We love, love, love the big cats, but they are for appreciating and admiring, not for touching, hugging, or generally palling around with. That's because they are nature's perfect killing machines (sorry, snakes) and should not be trifled with except by experts. And yet we love this video. So much about it is wrong: cats and dogs together, domesticated animals with wild beasts, two against one. But friendship is friendship. Friendship is pure. Those lions are juveniles still, after all. It's like that glorious first half of "The Fox and the Hound" when Todd and Copper simply don't yet know that they're supposed to be enemies. This dog "was ...
No one's born fierce. Even the most ferocious, intimidating animal in the kingdom was once an adorable puffball. Take this lion cub, for example. Man, it really wants you to be frightened of it. But we're sorry, little one; you're just not scary yet. Every time you try to roar and that little squeak comes out, we just want to hold you and snuggle you and tickle your furry little belly. Don't give up, though. You'll get there. ...
That feline lightsaber duel from earlier really got me in the mood to see more cats playing with lasers, so here's another great video from Big Cat Rescue. The last time we checked in with BCR, they showed us how the big cats (ie. tigers, lions, leopards and jaguars) are really just like the domesticated cats we have at home. A tiger doesn't look so scary when he's chasing around a giant plastic ball. (Except they really can rip your throat out or eat you alive, so don't get cocky around one.) What other toys that our cats love work just as well on big cats? If you said "laser pointers," you are right! But it's not like you're some kind of genius. It says it right there in the title. ...
