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Friday 9 January, 2009
 02:29 | 29/Jul/2008 |  1 Comment(s)
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Amazing Hug - 2


It seems that lions really are very affectionate animals. Maybe that's why they have been made the King of the jungle. After my earlier post titled 'Amazing Hug', here is 'Amazing Hug - 2', a video of another lion giving an amazing hug to it's rescuers. This human-lion reunion video has become a big hit on YouTube since last couple of weeks and has even caught the attention of news channels around the world. In fact, according to Wikipedia, "From July 2008, the video has been viewed over 6,000,000 times". As mentioned in the video, two men had bought this lion when it was a small cub and named him Christian. After he grew up, they released him to the jungles of Africa and went to see him after a year and this is what happened when they finally met him :












The ex-pression on the lion's face when he sees his old friends from a distance and the way he first slows down and then after recognising them starts running towards them and gives them a hug is simply amazing, heart warming and touching. The complete story can be found below :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion

http://www.vetlocator.com/newsarticles/christian_the_lion.php






After watching the video, I was so inspired that I decided to produce a third part titled 'Amazing Hug - 3' that would feature my reunion with my pet cat Kitty Cat. The plan was simple. I would first leave Kitty Cat in a jungle and go to meet her after one year. When she would come running towards me, I would shoot a video of the event and post it on YouTube as 'Amazing Hug - 3'. Accordingly, I started preparing for the video. First, I got someone to shoot a video of me playing with Kitty Cat in a nearby park. Then I showed her the above two videos so that she knew exactly how to react after seeing me one year later. Next I recorded a scolding message for her and set it as a ring tone on her mobile and told her that I would give her a missed call everyday on her mobile. This was just to ensure that if by chance she forgot my face in a year, she would atleast remember my voice and recognise me when I would scold her after one year in the jungle. I also gave her a map of the jungle showing the exact place where I would come to meet her. Finally I put her in a small cage and took her to a nearby jungle and released her in the wild like Christian ....

While returning back, I started planning as to how I would shoot the reunion. I would invite the cameramen of all major news channel to telecast the event live on TV. I would also have 1 cameraman sitting in a helicopter shooting the event from the sky to get an aerial view. For those interested in watching the event in person, I would make some sitting arrangements around the meeting place. And since it would be quite hot in the jungle, I would also give a contract to someone to sell cold drinks and ice cream to the spectators. And finally I would sell the exclusive rights of the video to Youtube for a big amount of money. But......

But when I reached home, I was shocked to see Kitty Cat in the house sitting in front of her laptop chatting with her friend. When I asked her how come she was here, she told that after I had left her in the jungle, she had given a missed call to her sniffer dog friend Sniffy. On seeing the missed call from Kitty Cat, Sniffy had thought that as usual her master (that's me !!!) had gone missing and had come running to my house to find me. But seeing the house locked, he had followed the scent of the special perfume which he had given me as a birthday present so that whenever I get lost, he can find me quickly from the scent of that perfume. And Kitty Cat had sprayed this perfume on herself before I took her to the jungle so that Sniffy would find her when he would come looking for me. Accordingly when Sniffy followed the scent of that perfume, he reached Kitty Cat in the jungle and both of them came back home safely....Isn't it confusing ???

After reaching home, Kitty Cat had immediately logged on to Catmail messenger and was chatting with her friend Mani Mao telling her all that had happened. The other day she was even telling me that the owner of Catmail Mr. Billi Cats is the richest cat in the world, even richer than the owner of Hotmail. When I asked her where she gets such fancy information from, she said that such information is posted on the website Catopedia.com which is hosted and maintained by her friend Mani Mao (who always keeps telling her that cats are more intelligent than human beings....)

So finally after seeing Kitty Cat back in the house, I decided that I would now try this experiment again only after 1 year..........

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