A video of a Saudi animal lover who shares his home with lions and a bear has caused a stir

A video has been shared on Facebook over the weekend appearing to show a Saudi man with a variety of wild animals sharing his home. In the clip, which has received much social media attention and over 23,000 views, the young man is shown playing with a number of different animals including lions, a bear and a monkey. 

The young man in the video is Osama al-Daghiri, who regularly posts Snapchat videos of his eclectic animal-loving antics.

He has trained a selection of scary-looking beasts and in this video he manages, across nearly three minutes of footage,



to get the lions to drink Turkish coffee, the monkey to grab a sleeping cat, the bear to correct a knocked-over chair and, perhaps not quite as impressively, a cockerel to sing on cue.

While he continues to laugh throughout, the video is alarming at times, as two fully grown lions pounce upon him, pressing him against a wall. It seems, though, that the animals love their owner, as he boisterously play fights with the small brown bear while it takes a shower.

Facebook commenters expressed their shock at the video’s contents, especially the tameness of the animals: