In what seems like a Disney movie come to life, a lion, a tiger and a bear have all become best friends at an animal sanctuary in Georgia.
Baloo the brown bear, Leo the lion and Shere Khan the tiger, known collectively as BLT, have formed an unlikely friendship across the animal kingdom at the 250-acre Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary in Locust Grove, Ga.
Video: The three animals, found as cubs in an Atlanta drug dealer’s basement, have been best friends for 13 years. They share a cage at Noah’s Ark, a Georgia animal sanctuary. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports.
"It's really amazing that the BLT all interact like they do,'' Noah's Ark animal husbandry manager Allison Hedgecoth said on TODAY Friday. "As far as we know, this is the only BLT in the world."
Under normal circumstances, the animals would have never met because the bear is native to North America, the lion to Africa and the tiger to Asia. However, 13 years ago, when the three animals were still cubs, they were found in, of all places, an Atlanta drug dealer's apartment. The exotic pets were seen as a status symbol. They were all in poor condition, but had formed a special bond under duress.
"They actually seek out each others affections,'' Hedgecoth said. "They nuzzle each other. They play together."
The three animals live on a habitat of three acres at the non-profit Noah's Ark sanctuary, so they could easily separate themselves, but they choose to spend their time close to one another. The founder of Noah's Ark, Jama Hedgecoth, believes their unlikely friendship could teach their human counterparts a lesson as they wow visitors with their bond.
"I think people, they really want to be like that,'' Jama Hedgecoth told TODAY. "They teach you how to get along. They're definitely not the same color. They're not the same species. They're not even from the same country, and they love each other. They're brothers, and they teach you how to love."
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Given the right circumstances, anyone can become a gruesome killer. ;)
They ones they bring home are food for You (according to the cat). I have no problems with those gifts. It's the "recreational killing" the cat ALSO does that bothers me.
She takes birds, mice and other small animals and plays with them until they stop moving, and then she just leave them there. She doesn't eat even half of the things she kill outside of the "gift to Me"-area.
That is not ok. I have one rule in my house, and one rule only:
Never kill anything unless you're going to eat it.
I could easily find some animal gore and completely natural and total cruelty to post here if you wish. Ever filmed a cat playing with a mouse?
I have. :)
I thought you said a little while ago, you were trying to train your cat not to hunt for fun. You were filming the action instead of saving the mouse.
Didn't really feel like it was a good idea to "save" a mouse with broken legs and internal bleeding. It would have died anyway, but more slowly and painfully if I had interferred there.
BS. You were enjoy filming it, watching it suffer. End of story.
No.
I wanted video-proof that animals can be cruel too, because it happened just hours after I had seen a thread here about some mushy kushy animal-love and thought silently to myself that I'd like to show everyone how awful nature can really be, and by the law of attraction I were delievered the EXACT circumstances that I wished for, whereas should I have wasted the moment that presented itself, I'd basically have ordered something from the universe that I didn't intend to use, and therefore waste.
That'd be BLASPHEMY, since that would mean that Gods whole arrangement of a cat that got to live and a mouse that got to die, would have been all for nothing. ;)
Don't order what you can't consume.
Think of what you Think.
PS. You should avoid getting into a character assasination battle with me. In my past life I were quite evil, and I still know all the tricks. ;)
"Animals don´t hunt for sport"
Cats do, and they also torture for fun.
I'm trying to teach my favourite cat to only kill what she intends to eat, but I'm not doing well there. Seems her instincts are stronger than my intentions. :)
...Lol They Have Free View......Regardless Of Yor....View.......Dont We All...........<3.............x..
Mikeil: I understand your point, but I think that this article was more about species interaction in the animal kingdom.
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