When Sara first arrived at her rescuers’ home, she was sick, tired, and was covered in ringworms and signs of abuse all over her little furry body.
Sara the lion cub plays in an apartment where she was sheltered by the rescue group Animals Lebanon in Beirut , Lebanon , Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. Sara the lion cub sits in a crate before being loaded on a yacht at the Dbayeh sea port, north of Beirut , Lebanon , Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. Sara the lion cub plays with her caretaker in an apartment where she was sheltered by the rescue group Animals Lebanon in Beirut , Lebanon , Monday, Nov. 11, 2024.
Animals Lebanon first discovered Sara on social media channels in July. Her owner, a Lebanese man in the ancient city of Baalbek, posted bombastic videos of himself parading with the little lion cub on TikTok and Instagram.The lion cub was “really just being used as showing off,” said Jason Mier, executive director of Animals Lebanon.
Mier and his team were able to extract Sara from Baalbek weeks before Israel launched its aerial bombardment campaign on the ancient city, and move her to an apartment in Beirut’s busy commercial Hamra district. Since the war started, Animals Lebanon has also been rescuing pets that have been trapped in damaged apartments as hundreds of thousands of Lebanese fled bombardment - almost 1,000 over the past month alone.
Unaware of the war around her, Sara thrived. She was fed a platter of raw meat daily and grew to 40 kilograms . She cuddled every morning with Mier’s wife Maggie, also an animal rights activist.Animals Lebanon collected donations from supporters and rights groups around the world to put Sara on a small yacht to take her to Cyprus. From there, she flew to the United Arab Emirates before her long journey ended in Cape Town.
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