‘Pet lion’ confiscated from Chinese national in Phnom Penh

[geovalin]

Many of us own a cat or a dog – or even a goldfish – but a Chinese man living in Phnom Penh thought he would go for something a little bigger in the shape of a pet lion. Police, with participation from NGO Wildlife Alliance, raided a villa located at No. 22, Street 306, Village 7, Sangkat Boeung Keng Kang I, Khan Boeung Keng Kang, on the morning of 27th June, after reports that a lion was being raised on the premises.

 

They discovered a male lion, weighing more than 70 kilograms which had been raised by the Chinese man since infancy. The lion is now around a year and a a half old and apparently consumes about six kilograms of raw meat a day.

 

Koam Seiha, Director of Prey Chey Administration, Phnom Penh said that people do not have the right to raise wild animals, which are a rare species and it is contrary to the law and Article 49 of the Law on Forestry, paragraph 2 in point 3, which states that the ownership of endangered species is prohibited.

 

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50882130/pet-lion-confiscated-from-foreign-national-in-phnom-penh/

[Sydebolle]

Well, the lion was lucky; in other places they tend to shoot black panthers on site and, at the end, it is not possible to identify the hunter ....... 

[bangon04]

43 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

Well, the lion was lucky; in other places they tend to shoot black panthers on site and, at the end, it is not possible to identify the hunter ....... 

also lucky he is not a tiger - he would have been surgically emasculated as soon as he passed puberty.....