Lion Hunt

What a good idea to give your mom some rest.

Come to think it was not you who would be running away from lion getting scared...it would be lion..your dad had it wrong...kidding...lol Snakes...a whole bunch of them...hatched out from eggs...the gardener took a basket and covered them..so that they would not escape...and sent me to neighbor's place and called a few others so they could kill them..that is one I remember...and I also remember elephant lifting me with the trunk and perching me on its back. When I think of that I feel like crying. Back then I did not know they ill-treated elephants to train them like that...

We should try lion hunting. We know they're here. We kept it small growing up. We caught bugs and kept them in jars. Biggest thing we ever caught were frogs and toads.

What a good and creative Dad. I hunted for wild flowers and morel mushrooms.

How many lions your family hunt until now?

My grandfather took me out in a canoe when I was 9. He suggested we hunt for alligators amongst the marsh. I think there probably were gators in there. I never agreed to the mission.

Sounds like a lot of fun for a kid! We did have mountain lions not far from the house when I was a kid and we did not go hunting for them! I remember catching peepers in the hay meadow near the house and putting them in my aunt's bed. Uh... probably shouldn't have confessed that. It was fun to catch them, though. Other than that, we didn't hunt anything like that.

I lived in a big city, there was no possibility to go Lion hunting in the streets, but I loved to visit the local parks and to feed the ducks in the ponds.

That was sweet of your dad to give your mom a break

LOL! Yes, my family often hunted the fields and forests when I was growing up. Uhm... we actually hunted to put meat on our table, though. Cottontail, jackrabbits, squirrel, turkey, quail and white tail deer were hunted on our farm in Missouri and several of my brothers brought back elk, moose and bear when they hunted in The Rockies and in Canada. Two of my older brothers still make a trip every year out West or Northwest to bring back different wild game for our freezers. We also took friends out to hunt "Snipe" on our farm, too! LOL! (I always thought it was funny that there really is a bird called a Snipe that is very tasty if prepared correctly!) But the "hunts" we took our friends on always ended up by us leaving the person in the woods for a while by themselves while everyone else covertly headed home for a mug of hot cocoa to fortify us for the "search and rescue" we had to do to bring the friend back to the house!

What a great way to learn a few skills, too!

What wonderful fun that sounds like. Your dad had a great imagination and it was great that he knew to give your mom a break.

Must have been fun for you and a nice rest for mom.

Never hunted anything in my life.