If we push the moral issues of keeping wild animals captive/as pets aside, these pictures are just fantastic. Who didn’t want a pet lion as a kid, I ask you?
I wish I had some backstory on these, but I don’t; they’re from the LIFE archive and first spotted here.
July 18, 2011 @ 4:55 pm
Wow… the middle photo in particular disturbs me, considering my Hannibal’s penchant for getting in bed with me, then biting my hand when I deign to move around and/or stop petting him.