During
my days in the advertising business, I organized promotional events
such as Christmas parades with a team of six ponies pulling the sleigh
of Santa Claus, carnivals and circuses with exotic birds and animals,
including lions, tigers, bears, monkeys and elephants.
One day, I was on the phone with the client to discuss the topic for an upcoming sales event, when suddenly we heard the receptionist my scream, then my office door burst open and romped baby Leo. Behind him was one of his handlers, trying angle beast, while another handler tried unsuccessfully to convince the clerk that she was in no danger.
Handler / owners were associates, whom I often hired to provide animals for my more bizarre actions.
Leo was just a kid, but a 5 - month cub is not a small kitten, but he played like a kitten, swatting and jumping on anything that moved. He was the size of a very overweight retriever. When he ducked under my couch after the ball and stood back with his prize, he took the sofa with him.
The client asked for an explanation the break, but could not believe my comment colored events in the office as long as he heard the kitten "mighty roar." He then insisted that I bring it to my showroom visitors and their pet, and come up with a jungle theme for sale event where we could feature a small animal.
Sensing another job for their animals, my friends gladly accepted his invitation, and we got into my car. I went there one handler, sat in the passenger seat, and a small lion was in the back seat with another handler.
I rode the trains in the busy city street. It turned approaching the intersection, the traffic light is green, so I spent over, but the driver accelerated the North make a left turn in front of me. I had to slam on the brakes and turn the wheel to the left to avoid a collision.
The action was irresistible playful cub. He jumped out of the back seat, wrapped his front paws around my neck and began to chew on my hair and forcing my head down on the steering wheel.
Screech of brakes and the car drew attention engage pedestrians, who were watching in horror spectacle rarely seen in the middle of the city - a car careening out of control with lion attack on the driver.
