WILD FELINE SPECIES LIKE LIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS

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When I see videos of people playing and keeping wild feline species like lions and Tigers as pet, I wonder how they do it because, even the one at the zoo seem so dangerous that I keep my distance. In my community, people keep domestic cats as pets and they are friendly sometime but one can peacefully live them as they do not cause unnecessary troubles. Sometimes, people get them for a reason, such as to help keep the home safe from the infestation of rats because they destroy foods, documents and valuables. Hence there are different reasons an individual can keep a cat which is quite understandable but for lions and Tigers not understandable at all.

Just as people buy different species of dogs and train them to be a means of security for their home or companies, cats are also regarded as natural hunters, especially in Nigeria because every household seem to have a reason for keeping pets be it personal or for security purposes. It is a known fact that cats have a strong instinct and are considered natural hunters to catch small rodents. They can help to instill Fear in the minds of the rodents as they are scared of rats, since they feed on them. This is why when people are quarreling or keeping malice with each other to the point that they not want to be seen together we refer to them as 'cat and rat'.

I was on social media one time, a x I found out a video where an Arab man had up to 3 or 4 lions as pets. It was such a scary sight because all I could see was danger but to the man, they were his friends and were all over him. One has to be very careful of having lions as pet because theh are wild predators who are possessed with powerful instincts that can be harmful. I'm Nigeria, we can only find lions securely placed in the zoo but no human in Nigeria can boast of having one as a pet because of the risk involved.

In fact, it is weird to have Lions as a pet because even people that have the common dogs as pets suffer complications from time to time. when a individual think that theh have an animal as a pet, it is believed that they will be your friend no matter what, but one day tbey Could Turn Against you and hurt you. Just like a story I read on the internet one day, the family had a dog for a pet and it always played with the children but one day the parents came home from an outing and the dog has bitten the children to pulp, it was such a diverstating time for the family and this is why people have to be careful because it seems like this animals tend to have relapsed memories sometimes.

For me, I have a distance emotion attached to having lions and Tigers around me because they are scary and can be harmful at anytime

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