Football player kills MT. Lion

[mackem 26,781]

22 hours ago, Greyman said:

While we are talking of cats and not wishing to start another thread, bearanator asked me about a lion park in  county Durham a while back which a few on here were familiar with, as it’s not in my neighbourhood I,ve asked others I deal with about it and am still waiting for reply’s, but an interesting observation which we all missed is that the lions in the picture are not quite what they appear to be, most likely jag/lion crosses which opens up a whole load more questions as they must have been bred in captivity due to the fact the parents would probably never meet in the wild you can see the rosettes on the side normally only found on Jaguars and leopards  

Those lion were standard lions,bought 50 years ago,I worked at the park for a week as a kid saw the lions often as a visitor,were jag lion around back then?Spotted lion with rosettes were a thing back in Africa in the 1930’s,rarities but they existed,though not nowadays.

[BEARINATOR 2,871]

28 minutes ago, mackem said:

Those lion were standard lions,bought 50 years ago,I worked at the park for a week as a kid saw the lions often as a visitor,were jag lion around back then?Spotted lion with rosettes were a thing back in Africa in the 1930’s,rarities but they existed,though not nowadays.

Thought you would know about the place mate, only been living this way 9 years and it’s one of the old estate places I like a walk through local with out the dogs

[mackem 26,781]

24 minutes ago, BEARINATOR said:

Thought you would know about the place mate, only been living this way 9 years and it’s one of the old estate places I like a walk through local with out the dogs

I did a weeks work experience there when I was 15,the park had closed by then but some of the animals were still there,used to be a £1 for a car to get in when the place was open.The baboons escaped once and a few of them had to be shot.

[mackem 26,781]

First recorded jaglion were cubs born in Ontario Canada in April 2006 the pic of the lions in Lambton Lion Park was taken 1970’s,standard lions not hybrids.

[eastcoast 4,150]

 On reading the title thought it may be about Gary Lineker, perhaps woke up from his woke nonsense and remembered that he was born with a pair of testicles and has millions of pounds and wanted to enjoy life rather than winge about other people's real or imaged social problems. But no, just some American bloke that I have never heard of.

Edited February 14, 2023 by eastcoast

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

…and we are told these roam the British countryside ,mint .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

On 25/01/2023 at 05:45, comanche said:

I can't  believe  some of the disbelieving numpties on this . 

The way that photo shows the puma off is  no different from the  way a fisherman arranges a trophy shot of a big fish.

Anyway why would it be faked? 

Pumas aren't rare . 

Thanks for posting Wolfdog ; l reckon a few of the disbelieving chimps on this site owe you an apology. 

 

 

I think a few will be wanting it to be fake mate as there’s no way on earth something of that size can go undetected in our countryside .

[Dazmac 40]

On 07/02/2023 at 16:12, mackem said:

Those lion were standard lions,bought 50 years ago,I worked at the park for a week as a kid saw the lions often as a visitor,were jag lion around back then?Spotted lion with rosettes were a thing back in Africa in the 1930’s,rarities but they existed,though not nowadays.

I remember going there as a kid in the early 70's, if you went by on the bus you used to be able to see the Giraffes from the the top deck. There was something in the local paper last year (Evening Chronicle iirc) for the 50th anniversary and I'm sure it said most of the animals were bought from (Jimmy?) Chipperfields Circus. It was closed in 1980 due to rising costs and is slowly being covered in houses.

[eastcoast 4,150]

A bit like ghosts and aliens, if you catch one then you can prove they are real, but cannot prove they do not exist just by the fact that you have not caught one.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

4 minutes ago, eastcoast said:

A bit like ghosts and aliens, if you catch one then you can prove they are real, but cannot prove they do not exist just by the fact that you have not caught one.

Very true mate but an educated reasoning says otherwise .

[mackem 26,781]

4 hours ago, Dazmac said:

I remember going there as a kid in the early 70's, if you went by on the bus you used to be able to see the Giraffes from the the top deck. There was something in the local paper last year (Evening Chronicle iirc) for the 50th anniversary and I'm sure it said most of the animals were bought from (Jimmy?) Chipperfields Circus. It was closed in 1980 due to rising costs and is slowly being covered in houses.

The head zoo keeper was called John I think,from memory.He told me loads of tales of catching the animals in Africa,which sounded incredible to a 15 year old Sunderland urchin with zero life experience,in hindsight the stories were bollocks and he probably never ventured past Middlesbrough.

[Dazmac 40]

18 hours ago, mackem said:

The head zoo keeper was called John I think,from memory.He told me loads of tales of catching the animals in Africa,which sounded incredible to a 15 year old Sunderland urchin with zero life experience,in hindsight the stories were bollocks and he probably never ventured past Middlesbrough.

It was John Howard if I can find it again I'll try and put a link to the article, there's a picture iirc 

[mackem 26,781]

39 minutes ago, Dazmac said:

It was John Howard 

Sounds right,he was the one who told me lions are called Simba in Swahili,so I figured he was a real life Chester le street Daktari.

[BEARINATOR 2,871]

On 14/02/2023 at 21:04, Dazmac said:

I remember going there as a kid in the early 70's, if you went by on the bus you used to be able to see the Giraffes from the the top deck. There was something in the local paper last year (Evening Chronicle iirc) for the 50th anniversary and I'm sure it said most of the animals were bought from (Jimmy?) Chipperfields Circus. It was closed in 1980 due to rising costs and is slowly being covered in houses.

That was the chronicle article I read online and posted the picture of mate, sad to see the old gates and that rotten away closed but some nice walks along it and some decent fishing spots