New New Show Your Face Thread

[BabyPiglet]

That Australian Kid, how old are you? You look very young.

 

[JulielovesDisney]

Thank you. You're very pretty yourself! I love your hair color.

Thanks. It's my natural color too. All my highlights are gone, and I'm probably not going to get any more. I like my natural color too much. =D

 

[Sparx]

Me walking my lion....

your....
lion?

that is awesome.
i love big cats.

on a side note, i love how you walk it by holding its tail.

 

[CheezDoodle]

your....
lion?

that is awesome.
i love big cats.

on a side note, i love how you walk it by holding its tail.

Really? Because I think it looks horrible. If she must have a lion, she shouldn't walk him, and if she must she should get a harness or something.

Also, I love big cats too, and that's why I don't think they should be kept as pets. And the lion is either a him or her, not an 'it'.

 

[minnie_2006]

Really? Because I think it looks horrible. If she must have a lion, she shouldn't walk him, and if she must she should get a harness or something.

Also, I love big cats too, and that's why I don't think they should be kept as pets. And the lion is either a him or her, not an 'it'.

okay that was a bit harsh?!

 

[Sparx]

Really? Because I think it looks horrible. If she must have a lion, she shouldn't walk him, and if she must she should get a harness or something.

Also, I love big cats too, and that's why I don't think they should be kept as pets. And the lion is either a him or her, not an 'it'.

you don't know the conditions she got that lion under or the conditions its kept in.

and i know a good deal about animals, and i know that lion has claws and teeth that could tear her apart if it wanted to. obviously, its not offended by her holding the tip of its tail, and if it is okay with her doing that, you very well should be.

tell me the sex of that lion, and i'll glady refer to it under a gender specific term. thank you very much.

 

[Tinkerbell424]

Pretty pictures everyone!
That_Australian_Kid - Your lion is gorgeous.

^ That was the day, my eyes were swollen.

 

[That_Australian_Kid]

Ok peeps its not actually mylion but it was just a bit of a joke with my friends... but i realise now that um yeah.. probably shouldnt have said that...

 

[That_Australian_Kid]

Just abit of exstension on my last post,

The lion is female and her name is Ruby. They like having you walk them by there tail because it is like holding hands with them. Obviously you wouldnt actually hold there "hand" cause.. um yeah.. claws much?
This photo was taken in south africa. I was 12 at the time.

Photo of me and my friendies i was 11
Photo of me on the trampy with Em I was 13
The photos of me at school are a collection of around 11/12/13-ish ageness
Ballet photo was 12-ish

Um.. yeah I thinhk thats all for now...

Yeah ill put some more up if I take any while at musical rehersals today...

Oh yeah BTW im 13 right now.

xoxo
(All the way from Australia)
Hannah

 

[♥DizzyDizney♥]

Just abit of exstension on my last post,

The lion is female and her name is Ruby. They like having you walk them by there tail because it is like holding hands with them. Obviously you wouldnt actually hold there "hand" cause.. um yeah.. claws much?
This photo was taken in south africa. I was 12 at the time.

Photo of me and my friendies i was 11
Photo of me on the trampy with Em I was 13
The photos of me at school are a collection of around 11/12/13-ish ageness
Ballet photo was 12-ish

Um.. yeah I thinhk thats all for now...

Yeah ill put some more up if I take any while at musical rehersals today...

Oh yeah BTW im 13 right now.

xoxo
(All the way from Australia)
Hannah

Nice pictures! You, your friends, and Ruby and adorable! Aussie's rock. ;D Do you have an accent?

 

[That_Australian_Kid]

Nice pictures! You, your friends, and Ruby and adorable! Aussie's rock. ;D Do you have an accent?

Um im not sure if i have an accent... my american and canadian friends think my accent is cute... but i dont think i have one...
If i do its not ur typical aussie accent.. and i DO NOT say G'day. lets just keep that clear.

 

[LizSwann32]

my "UH-OH" face lol

 

[CheezDoodle]

you don't know the conditions she got that lion under or the conditions its kept in.

and i know a good deal about animals, and i know that lion has claws and teeth that could tear her apart if it wanted to. obviously, its not offended by her holding the tip of its tail, and if it is okay with her doing that, you very well should be.

tell me the sex of that lion, and i'll glady refer to it under a gender specific term. thank you very much.

Lions in circuses have claws and teeth too, but they don't rip apart their trianers when they're made to do stupid tricks. Just because they don't kill their trainers doesn't mean they like what they're doing or that it's in the lion's best interest.

 

[♥DizzyDizney♥]

Um im not sure if i have an accent... my american and canadian friends think my accent is cute... but i dont think i have one...
If i do its not ur typical aussie accent.. and i DO NOT say G'day. lets just keep that clear.

Haha, okay

 

[imabrat]

 

[AbsoluteAwesome1]

^My hair looks all greasy and gross in that picture. Because it WAS all greasy and gross in that picture.
Not that it's any better now. It still reeks of hairspray from last night o___o

 

[♥DizzyDizney♥]

Your gorgeous, and your eyes are beautiful!

^My hair looks all greasy and gross in that picture. Because it WAS all greasy and gross in that picture.
Not that it's any better now. It still reeks of hairspray from last night o___o

I love your hair! I have the same sunglasses as you.

my "UH-OH" face lol

Haha, good uh-oh face. I love your hair like that!

 

[HDD]

nice pictures everyone!

 

[CheezDoodle]

Just abit of exstension on my last post,

The lion is female and her name is Ruby. They like having you walk them by there tail because it is like holding hands with them. Obviously you wouldnt actually hold there "hand" cause.. um yeah.. claws much?
This photo was taken in south africa. I was 12 at the time.

Photo of me and my friendies i was 11
Photo of me on the trampy with Em I was 13
The photos of me at school are a collection of around 11/12/13-ish ageness
Ballet photo was 12-ish

Um.. yeah I thinhk thats all for now...

Yeah ill put some more up if I take any while at musical rehersals today...

Oh yeah BTW im 13 right now.

xoxo
(All the way from Australia)
Hannah

That's very cool to hear that you went to South Africa, and I'm sure you were too young to know better, but read this:

Chris Haslam writes in The Sunday Times of February 10, 2008 of the gruesome truth behind big-cat conservation projects that are championed by British tour operators

"It’s the latest attraction for tourists visiting southern Africa, but conservationists are warning that walking with lions is – quite literally – a bloody con.

Dozens of private game parks across South Africa and Zimbabwe offer, or have offered, tourists the opportunity to walk with, handle and be photographed with lion cubs.

Excursions to some, such as the Aquila Private Game Reserve, outside Cape Town, and the Seaview Game and Lion Park, in Port Elizabeth, are offered by tour operators such as Kuoni, Virgin Holidays and the Holland America cruise line.

Antelope Park, in Zimbabwe, charges about £20 for a 90-minute lion encounter it describes as “not just a very privileged photo opportunity, [but] the chance for you to become a conservationist”. The park’s African Lion Environmental Research Trust (Alert) programme is enthusiastically supported by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who, on his www.7summits.com website, praises its efforts “to help steadily increase the number of lions into areas carefully protected from poachers”.

The Sunday Times, however, has learnt that, far from being released into the wild, as many as 59 lion cubs raised at Antelope Park have been sold to big-game-hunting operations to be shot for sport.

So-called “canned hunting”, where rich trophy-hunters pay thousands of pounds to shoot big game in fenced enclosures, is big business in southern Africa. The price of shooting a lion bred in captivity ranges from about £9,000 to £16,000, and the breeders who supply the trade are struggling to keep up with demand.

While some estimates suggest that there are less than 20,000 wild lions remaining in Africa, the International Fund for Animal Welfare reports that another 3,000 languish in captivity, bred as targets for trophy-hunters. But breeders have found a lucrative sideline to the bloody business of feeding canned hunts. By removing cubs from mothers after about four days – to induce another breeding cycle – they can rent them out to tourist parks to participate in lion-walking attractions.

Tourists and the gap-year students employed as guides – many of whom have paid up to £2,000 for conservation placements with agencies such as Real Gap and All Africa Volunteers – are told that the lion cubs are being raised for release in the wild, but big-cat expert Dr Sarel van der Merwe, of the African Lion Working Group, says this is impossible.

“Captive-bred lions can be released only into relatively small areas, such as fenced-off game farms and private nature reserves. Invasive management will always be necessary, such as removing the breeding males to prevent inbreeding,” he says. “In such cases, the older males will have to be placed elsewhere – and where will that be? I’m of the opinion that such males will have to be hunted for trophy purposes.”

In fact, there’s not much else you can do with a hand-reared lion. “Hand-rearing of lion cubs will ensure that these animals are imprinted to humans, and that they will thereafter lack natural avoidance behaviours,” warns Dr Luke Hunter of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Put another way, captive-bred, hand-reared lions have the potential to become man-eaters, and thus can never be allowed to roam free.

Daniel Turner, of the animal-welfare group the Born Free Foundation, says that captive-bred lion cubs often have their teeth and claws removed, and are drugged before meeting tourists. “These animals are bred entirely for entertainment and derive no benefit whatsoever from these operations,” he said. “We urge people not to participate in any form of interaction with lions or other big cats.”

Neither the Alert programme nor Sir Ranulph Fiennes could be reached for comment, but the Aquila game reserve, in South Africa, said that, following complaints from tour operators, it had now ceased offering lion-cub petting. In an e-mail to The Sunday Times, the park said: “We do not have lion cubs at the moment, but we do have cheetahs you could interact with.”

Kuoni said that it works with the Born Free Foundation to ensure that the excursions it offered were ethical, but that it is sometimes impossible to stop customers being offered unapproved products by suppliers. “

Kuoni currently features Aquila as an overnight excursion from Cape Town, as a safari experience,” it added. “Given the allegations regarding cub petting, which is condemned by Born Free, Kuoni has withdrawn Aquila from sale until further notice while investigations are being carried out.”

 

[Sparx]

Lions in circuses have claws and teeth too, but they don't rip apart their trianers when they're made to do stupid tricks. Just because they don't kill their trainers doesn't mean they like what they're doing or that it's in the lion's best interest.

a circus abusing an animal is a completely different thing than her carefully holding the animals' tail. that animal has enough muscle control in its tail alone that if it didn't want her holding it, it wouldn't let her.

i suppose by your standards, its wrong to have pets at all? since domesticating big cats is wrong, what about domesticating small cats? they didn't evolve that way by chance, they were domesticated over thousands of years and house cats don't have all the instincts of feral cats.

i get that you're the big bad animal rights activist, and you're gonna quote the sunday times at me/her, but seriously, if you wanna make changes why don't you do something more effective than freak out over the internet for a girl holding a lion's tail?


hannah, i'm sorry for this disagreement being the welcome you receive here. your photos are beautiful.