Now Crufts is over here's some big cats

Two men, John Rendall and Ace Berg, purchased a lion cub from Harrods in 1969 for 250 guineas. They reared a lion cub in England but after a year he had reached a weight of 185lb and a chance meeting with the actors Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna (who starred in Born Free - the story of Elsa the lioness) lead to Christain the lion being sent to Joy and George Adamson in Kenya for them to ease him into life in the wild. Four years later John and Ace went to visit Christian who was now living in the Kora Reserve although he had not been seen for about 9 months...


Here's a picture of John and Ace with Christian as lion cub...




Here's some video of what happened when they went to visit Christian in 1974...






Thanks to Lady Jane for the spot and The Daily Mail for the background.