# Should I buy a lion? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2013, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727 "2013-01-10T07:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![momosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@momosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/momosa)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/1 "2013-01-10T07:28:54Z")
[http://abcnews.go.com/news/t/blogEntry?id=18173366](http://abcnews.go.com/news/t/blogEntry?id=18173366) Makes me want to buy one just to scare the shit out of my neighbors…should I ? I am a dog lover already , with two English Bulldogs…they’d love to play with a lion. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/2 "2013-01-10T07:40:43Z")
Get a bunch of lions. You’d be the pride of the neighborhood! ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/3 "2013-01-10T07:40:49Z")
I prefer a great dane with a head attachment making it look like it has three heads. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/4 "2013-01-10T07:40:50Z")
When in doubt, always err on the side of buying a lion. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/5 "2013-01-10T07:44:50Z")
Get a lion. You could have a simba-otic relationship with it. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/6 "2013-01-10T08:48:31Z")
If you do, you shouldn’t take it to the beach. That might be considered to be a lion in the sand. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/7 "2013-01-10T14:20:12Z")
> [@momosa](#): > > [http://abcnews.go.com/news/t/blogEntry?id=18173366](http://abcnews.go.com/news/t/blogEntry?id=18173366) > > Makes me want to buy one just to scare the shit out of my neighbors…should I ? I am a dog lover already , with two English Bulldogs…they’d love to play with a lion. I don’t believe any of this. I think you’re lion. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/8 "2013-01-10T14:35:08Z")
I have a Golden-Doodle which has the same basic muppet hair as a Labra-Doodle. I may try to get the groomer to give the lion-do a shot next time she gets sheared. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/9 "2013-01-10T14:35:24Z")
Paging **My Lord** … ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/10 "2013-01-10T14:43:09Z")
Personally, I think it would be a giant cat-astrophe. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/11 "2013-01-10T15:07:06Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I have a Golden-Doodle which has the same basic muppet hair as a Labra-Doodle. I have to say that a mutt by any other name is still a mutt. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/12 "2013-01-10T15:13:03Z")
I wish Blackjack had longer hair. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/13 "2013-01-10T16:02:07Z")
My mother bought a lion once. It was a stuffed (as in plushy) mountain lion/female African lion (details were blurry) that was nearly life sized and had a very realistic face and sat upright. I went to her house one morning to get something and was halfway through the dimly lit living room when my hindbrain suddenly informed me that THERE WAS AN EFFING LION WATCHING ME FROM THE CORNER OF THE ROOM. If I’d been any older than 25, I probably would have dropped dead of a heart attack. As it was, I had to sit, rubber-kneed, for about ten minutes before I could walk again. I never have figured out why it hit me so hard - I’d even seen the stuffie before, just not in that location. OTOH, a number of years later I was in the zoo when a male lion decided he was unhappy about something, and roared several times. My wife and I still talk about how it made the hair on the back of our necks stand up. I think all humans Remember Africa… ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/14 "2013-01-10T16:05:26Z")
> [@biotop](#): > > get a bunch of lions. You’d be the pride of the neighborhood! First post FTW. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/15 "2013-01-10T21:04:23Z")
I understand a lion can be a good investment. However you will want to make sure it has really nice lush fur. That’s the mane thing. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/16 "2013-01-11T00:29:28Z")
But wouldn’t a lion in winter be bad? Animal rights! ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/17 "2013-01-11T01:44:59Z")
No. [Get a gorilla](http://www.theonion.com/articles/gorilla-sales-skyrocket-after-latest-gorilla-attac,30860/). It is your right as an American. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/18 "2013-01-11T11:03:46Z")
A found a film clip on a Swedish newspaper site: [http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/valfriserad-vovve-skapade-panik](http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/valfriserad-vovve-skapade-panik) ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/19 "2013-01-11T11:45:00Z")
When I was growing up, a classmate actually had a lion for a pet. It was old and feeble, chained out in the back yard. Still scared the piss out of me, first time I rounded the corner. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727/20 "2013-01-11T11:49:34Z")
From the article: > [@](#): > > Upon hearing of the lion sightings, the police actually called the Virginia Zoo, making sure the lions were all in place, which they were. Is anyone else rather curious as to how this conversation went? I mean was it more "Zookeeper, I need a bed check on all your \*Felis leos \*ASAP! Or “Hey, Phil, this is Officer Smith from the NPD…I, uh…I need you to count the lions for me again…Sure, I’ll hold.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-a-lion/646727.md?page=2)