Good morning from Osnabrück! The sun is shining, the sky is blue, I'm on my favorite board and watch my people, just as he once again - probably for the 1057th times - a visitor explains why they are not allowed to caress me. He is as always very polite - my Martin Finally a very well-bred Englishman with good manners - but also very determined. And if he knows better than I do, then you notice even that is seated behind his seriousness a little smile. This is not the visitor. You need to come near me, me - to "understand" in the truest sense of the word - probably no one understands better than my man. He also knows better than anyone that I am not a cuddly cat, but a full-grown lion, from nature - to quote Martin - as the "perfect killing machine" was created.
you think of this picture I do not look like that? Because I look like a stuffed animal in the King Size format?
That is the reason behind Martin Ernst blooms a tiny smile. For him, I am of the cuddly cat. He may come near me - but only he. Indeed, he is my man, to whom I trust and who I can trust it. We are friends.
friends. I think this is a very big word. And as far as friendship between man and animal, it is so great that some people probably could not have put it - probably because they have never experienced such friendship, and do not therefore possible. You never had a dog wagging its tail and jumped joyfully, they are never welcomed by a horse with a gentle hum been, they no cat has rubbed his little head on the leg and so again as "my man" is highlighted.
the've never experienced what Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "Little Prince" describes so beautifully. In this story the little prince meets a fox who wants to be tamed and says: ". I'm looking for friends What do you mean tame?"
"taming, this is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means: to be familiar."
"To establish ties?"
"Certainly," said the fox. "You are for me nothing more than a little boy, the hundred thousand other little boys quite similar. I do not need you, and you need of me. I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we shall need each other. Me, you will be unique in the world. I shall be unique in the world ... "...
" My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens, men hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all people are alike. I'm bored so slightly. But if you tame me, my life will be as if the sun. I shall know the sound of a step that is different from all others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music from the building. And then look: You see the wheat fields over there? I do not eat bread. For me The wheat is pointless. The wheat fields remind me of anything. And that is sad. But you have hair. Oh, it will be wonderful when you have tamed me! The gold of the wheat will bring me back to you. And I will listen to the wind love in the wheat. "
describes and then the fox, the little prince need patience to tame him, that he must take time and become familiar with it.
The" familiarize "it is. You have to know, to each other familiar and build confidence. Like Martin and me. Of course, we were friendly from the beginning. When I returned from Arabia came to him and he took me out of the box , felt I immediately that he could be my friend. I liked his smell, I liked the way he touched me, I felt that he only wants the best for me and care for me. He has fed me, he gave me massages the abdomen, he washed me, he made me stroked and played with me, he has shown me the world, he gave me the talk well when I was afraid of something, he was always there . And yes, I know the sound of his steps and I am pleased when I hear it. We belong together.
for both of us that is self-evident. We feel as if we had searched and found us. I think we will extend, if we were seen together. Therefore, understanding We also do not know why some people treat us this friendship do not want. When I hear that talk circus opponents believe that "wild animals" do not belong in the circus, then I ask myself: Have never thought about that even "wild animals" (and I do not see myself as a "wild animal" My ancestors lived. already in captivity, I was born in captivity and as a white lion I could survive in the wild is difficult. So I'm probably not a "wild animal") obviously takes to build a friendly relationship with people?
My secretary, who is also Martin's Press Officer and at length with behavioral research busy, always looking for an explanation. Normally she is good at bringing in the lion's behavior related to our evolution. But as far as our capacity for friendship with people is not really even her something. Of course, she says, it has something to do with the fact that we live lions in nature on an island only lions, but to our survival, must be able to deal with other animals and to "understand" to some extent. he must recognize that he is aggressive and can be dangerous;; A good hunter needs to see what animal from a herd separated from the others, perhaps he can be the danger signals For example, send the Zebras at the approach of a hunter, understand and react accordingly. So it is not out of the world that we can learn, "human manner" to understand and interpret the body language of a biped. He does not belong in our prey scheme, but we just Cats are known for our flexibility and intelligence. We can all significantly more than we need for mere survival in nature would.
But that explains more than our ability to close friendship with people, but not our willingness to do so. Which remains a mystery of nature. Or is it perhaps a gift from our Creator? Maybe he wanted people to give you the opportunity to expand your world through the friendship with us to another dimension? Maybe he wanted to, that we can be friends, make sure you take care of us and loves us?
In any case, I hope that you and allows us this possibility. I hope that there will be very many people, at least so far as may be known to me that they look at me and the friendship between Martin and me to experience. Friendship between animals and humans enriches all involved - we make sure that they will always be possible.
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