Shandor Larenty grooms, plays and cuddles best friend lion George daily
Meet the animal lover who is best friends with a 550lb lion. Shandor Larenty, 27, and George have been BFF for 10 years and he grooms, plays - and even cuddles him - daily.
Shandor said: "It's like watching a child grow up, or a younger sibling grow up, and it's exactly the same feeling. George is similar to me in the sense that while he's social, he also likes to be alone a lot. And George chooses to spend time with Shandor as much as the other way around. Shandor added: "They have good days and bad days just like us. If I go in there and he doesn't come running up, then I know it's not going to happen."
"But I always used to say, at the end of the day, their natural instinct kicks in, so if one lion has a go at you, the others join in. I was with George's son, who's part of the pride, and they have two growls. On that day the growl was really not happy, and he just walked up to me and growled like that and out of the blue he came running at me.
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