Neil was Melanine Griffith's First Live-In Lion

There are a large handful of vintage photographs cataloging this time in Melanie's life when she was 14 years old. Her mother, actress Tippi Hedren, was inspired by big cats after a trip to Africa and was encouraged by a trainer, for unexplainable reasons, to live with a lion to get a better idea of what they're like.

While grotesquely privileged and irresponsible at a epic scale - the photographs themselves are nothing short of astonishing.

I encourage you to google this. It's bizarre and fascinating. Here's a link to one article.