Thursday, August 7, 2008

Gay's Lion Farm revisited

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful belly mane!
Mary Ann

Anonymous said...

Is that a young Barbary lion?

Ian

Wade G. Burck said...

Ian,
I don't think anybody cared back them. This was for all intents and purposes a "puppy mill" for lions. As long a you had Black Maned Nubian Bush Lions you were official, and if you wanted to inflate your friends capability's you said they trained Sumatran tigers, instead of Bengal.
Wade

Wade G. Burck said...

Mary Ann,
"Beautiful belly mane?" It is a cage so trainers/keepers can "track down and kill any untameable beast that escapes from the confines of its pen." Like the San Francisco Zoo has been criticized for?
Wade

Anonymous said...

I believe this device would be a great aid for someone who wished to be a 'lion tamer' but was afraid of big cats.
Dion

henry edgar said...

a smaller, more portable (on wheels) rig like this was used to protect photographers shooting inside the steel arena for movies, publicity photos, etc. back in the days when cameras needed to be closer in to the subjects