if you have a cat, you know that your cat doesn’t always behave when it should. Now imagine if your cat just happened to be a full grown lion. Amazingly, a man named Val Gruener rescued a lion cub when it was 10 days old and nursed it to health.

This lion, named Sirga, soon grew up to a full grown lion. Despite Serge’s size and ability to rip off someone’s arm at a moment’s notice, Sirga and Val have a deep relationship based on trust, which is more than most cat owners can say about their own house cats.

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