Originally Posted by
LMB01
Very sad news. We go to Vegas several times a year and stay at the MGM Grand. We always go see the lions every day. We've done the interactions with the baby cubs and had our pictures taken with them once they got a little older. We got to know some of the trainers - we will miss them.
I play poker at the MGM Grand and it was so great that the lion habitat was so close to the poker room. I loved to see the lions, especially when the trainers were playing ball with them. Of course most of the time the lions would be sleeping or resting, because that is what lions do most of the time. But one of my favorite memories is of a sleeping lion and a trainer lying by him in repose with his head on the lion, i.e. using the lion as a PILLOW! The lion didn't mind!